Abstract

COELHO, Allan da Silva; RODRIGUES, Arlindo Manuel Esteves  and  WANDERLEY, Luiz Eduardo Waldemarin. Utopia as critical potential of Capitalist Modernity. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2018, vol.32, n.65, pp.817-844.  Epub Sep 21, 2020. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.issn.0102-6801.v32n65a2018-15.

Utopia is a modern concept that articulates the enunciation of a better world and the critical reflection on reality. It constitutes, as forms of consciousness (Mannheim) or as models of perfection (Hinkelammert), instrument of analysis of socio-political reality. Even in the face of secularization and rationalization, the concept remains related to religion, by articulating spheres of desire, hope or symbolism, in which dreaming of a different life points to the denial of established reality. In Bloch and Benjamin's critical Marxist dialogue with Latin American theology, we indicate the strength of hope in the face of fetishes and idolatries of capitalism in the dialectic of utopian thought and mythical thought as a way of renewing the approach of epistemological problems to politics. To consider the transcendental illusion allows another critique of instrumental reason and the epistemological structure that denies and hides the possibility of utopian reason and mythic reason.

Keywords : Utopia; Modernity; Fetish; Mythical thought; Idolatry.

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