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- Title
IDEOLOGY AND UTOPIA ACCORDING TO THE INTERPRETATION OF PAUL RICOEUR. TEXT AND CONTEXT.
- Authors
STUPARU, LORENA-VALERIA
- Abstract
In this paper, after presenting some moments in the history of the ideas of ideology and utopia, I refer to the binomial ideology-utopia in the vision of Paul Ricoeur. According to the French philosopher, ideology and utopia form a diptych, because in a certain way they respond to each other and the hermeneutic-phenomenological approach to these notions is remarkable. From Ricoeur's perspective, if the pathology of ideology manifests itself through its "affinity for illusion, dissimulation, lies", the specific of utopia manifests itself through "the loss of the real itself, in favor of perfectionistic, borderline unrealizable schemes", that replaces the logic of action aware of the elementary distinction between the desirable and the achievable. Beyond the "negative" dimensions, Ricoeur still recognizes the liberating function of utopia, because "to imagine the out of place means to keep open the field of the possible". He considers, in Kantian language, that "ideology and utopia are figures of the reproductive imagination and the productive imagination". In Paul Ricoeur's terms, as expressions of the political and social imaginary, ideology and utopia together with new symbols, rituals or mythologies are assumed by political power for the purpose of legitimation.
- Subjects
IDEOLOGY; UTOPIAS; IMAGINATION; OPTICAL illusions; INTELLECTUAL history; POWER (Social sciences); PHILOSOPHERS; MYTHOLOGY
- Publication
Romanian Review of Political Sciences & International Relations, 2024, Vol 21, Issue 2, p26
- ISSN
1841-2300
- Publication type
Article