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The modernist zeitgeist, according to Jurgen Habermas, is marked
by the passage of utopian thought into historical consciousness.
Since the French Revolution, Western utopian thinking is no
longer mere pie-in-the-sky, but is armed with methodology and
aligned with history. "Utopia" has become "a legitimate medium
for depicting alternative life possibilities that are seen as
inherent in the historical process.... [A] utopian perspective
is inscribed within politically active historical consciousness
itself" (Habermas 50). In a succinct formulation, Immanuel
Wallerstein described the Enlightenment as "constitut[ing] a
belief in the identity of the modernity of technology and the
modernity of liberation" (129).
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