Utopia: the political aesthetics of Paul Ricoeur

Paolo Furia

doi:10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470208.20240801

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Utopia: the political aesthetics of Paul Ricoeur

Volume 8, Issue 1

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Utopia: the political aesthetics of Paul Ricoeur
Utopia: the political aesthetics of Paul Ricoeur
University of Turin
Vol. 8, Issue 1, Pages: 78-89(2024)
Published： 30 June 2024 ，
DOI：10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470208.20240801
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Furia Paolo.Utopia: the political aesthetics of Paul Ricoeur[J].Critical Theory,2024,08(01):78-89. DOI： 10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470208.20240801.

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to reveal the relevance of aesthetics in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur

with particular respect to the concept of utopia as presented in the

Lectures

published in 1986. Utopia is relevant to aesthetics at three levels. First

utopia is a literary genre and as such it shares with the artistic sphere some formal and content-related criteria. Second

utopia is an imaginative variation of reality

therefore it shares with fiction some transformative power with respect to ordinary experience. As works of fiction

utopias are always historical

singular

and creative

therefore resist sociological reduction. Third

Saint-Simon and especially Fourier's utopias put aesthetic life at the core of their reformation project

which allows Ricoeur to emphasize the role of passions in the good life. In Ricoeur's account

utopia

for its cognitive

ethical

political

and aesthetic aspects

results in an ambivalent construct that counters the modern tendence to separate and oppose science and art.

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Keywords

ImaginationPassionsPhenomenologyUtopia

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