La temporalité de l’utopie : entre création et réaction
The predominant conception of utopia as a closed system has become its own conceptual and notional prison. Out of the reach of Time, based in a space outside reality, utopia can hardly be seen as part of the present. Aside from the generally accepted idea that utopia is a u-topos (non-place), the la...
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| Language: | fra |
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ADR Temporalités
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| Series: | Temporalités |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/1346 |
| Summary: | The predominant conception of utopia as a closed system has become its own conceptual and notional prison. Out of the reach of Time, based in a space outside reality, utopia can hardly be seen as part of the present. Aside from the generally accepted idea that utopia is a u-topos (non-place), the lack of consensus on how to define it represents its historical continuum. Accused of producing a totalitarian, Messianic or technocratic vision of society, the nature of utopia is still difficult to grasp, and its theoretical meaning remains uncertain. To discover a transversal definition of utopia, we have to get behind common sense and “work” with two constitutive dimensions of utopia: creation and reaction. Without one of those dimensions, utopia continues to be wedged in the middle of the debate on its possibility or impossibility. Thanks to the “bi-dimensional approach” utopia can stop being merely a subversive tool and gain immanence. The work of Charles Fourier is a perfect example of what the concept of utopia can signify when the two inseparable dimensions are exploited. By adding the impulse at the origin of his experiment, his utopia can transcend historical time. From passionate attractions to the Phalanstère, he is one of the few philosophers to have expressed simultaneously the immanent and transcendent sides of utopia. |
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| ISSN: | 1777-9006 2102-5878 |