Utopia Between Historical Change and Political Imagination. A Philosophical-political Criticism of Contemporary Age

As an ideal place, but no actual, the utopia represents the essence of modern thought in its quest for emancipation from absolutism and for creation of a just society. Utopia, however, has taken on many forms-free and rational communities, fanciful journeys, legislative projects, models of sovereignty-and even some reversals, as in dystopias. This complexity also depends on the interpretation we give today to utopian desire: an "open future, or the acceptance of contemporary society as a "realized" project of well-being? In the first case, utopia keeps alive the possibility of a better world; in the second, it affirms the certainty of an alienated and mechanized world. The essay emphasizes the importance of a utopian vision that outlines a non-totalitarian project of political transformation and an alternative future of hope on environmental and social justice issues, thus escaping the tyranny of the digital capitalism and the ideology of consumption. " imagination of political action within a historical perspective that looks to the