{"id":41664,"date":"2012-10-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/le-voyage-au-bout-de-lafrique-de-theodor-hertzka\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T22:09:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T21:09:10","slug":"le-voyage-au-bout-de-lafrique-de-theodor-hertzka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/le-voyage-au-bout-de-lafrique-de-theodor-hertzka\/","title":{"rendered":"Theodor Hertzka\u2019s Journey to the Ends of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'><p>The 19<sup>th<\/sup> century saw a plethora of social utopias, either theoretical constructs (Charles Fourier&rsquo;s phalanstery, for example) or more novelistic productions (<em>cf<\/em>. the works of Jules Verne, Edward Bellamy, &Eacute;tienne Cabet etc.). Among these, Theodor Hertzka&rsquo;s <em>Freeland: A Social Anticipation<\/em>, a book published in German in 1890 and translated into English in 1891, wholly deserves to have a short &ldquo;Futures of Yesteryear&rdquo; article devoted to it. In this article Bernard Cazes sketches the outlines of this free-market African utopia, set in present-day Kenya, the story of which is told by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Hertzka in two novels (the second a slimmed-down version of the first) that enjoyed genuine success in their day. After some investigation of the author&rsquo;s geopolitical choices, Bernard Cazes emphasizes the originality of the socio-political framework advocated by Hertzka, particularly where political organization and the role of women are concerned. Lastly, he presents the economic strand of the utopia. This is, in his view, a little less impressive, but an evocation of the free circulation of labour emerges from it nonetheless.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 19th century saw a plethora of social utopias, either theoretical constructs (Charles Fourier&rsquo;s phalanstery, for example) or more novelistic productions (cf. the works of Jules Verne, Edward Bellamy, &Eacute;tienne Cabet etc.). Among these, Theodor Hertzka&rsquo;s Freeland: A Social Anticipation, a book published in German in 1890 and translated into English in 1891, wholly deserves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/le-voyage-au-bout-de-lafrique-de-theodor-hertzka\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1324],"tags":[212],"keyword":[1143,872],"class_list":["post-41664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurs-dantan","category-revue-futuribles","tag-societe-en","keyword-culture-societe-en","keyword-utopie-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51339,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41664\/revisions\/51339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41664"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=41664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}