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Utopia Dispersed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Gianni Vattimo
Gianni Vattimo*
Affiliation:
University of Turin
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Abstract

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If utopias in the western cultural tradition owe their model of ideal, final, unitary order to the objective basis of metaphysics, have they not, like metaphysics, undergone a dissolution in Heidegger's sense of Verwindung? Insofar as the very notion of unity, like that of an ultimate metaphysical foundation, now reveals its violence and will to domination and as we are interested instead in thinking utopia as a ‘project for emancipation’, the author suggests replacing the unity that was hitherto characteristic of utopia with a multiplicity that is defended as a value and not as a phase of ‘confusion’ to be overcome.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 18 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2006

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