Philosophy Kitchen - Revue de philosophie contemporaine

Edited by Fabrizio Meroi and Paolo Vanini

The "new world" of utopias, even before representing an ideal place, takes shape as an alternative model to the existing world — one that can be imagined by virtue of an initial attitude of epoché, that is, a sceptical suspension of judgement towards the reality we inhabit. Starting from this premise, this issue sets out to re-read a number of texts from the modern and contemporary utopian tradition, not only to reveal the constitutive ambiguity of the utopian paradigm in a distinctly philosophical sense, but also to trace how the utopian imagination has permeated spaces and domains beyond philosophy itself — from literature to politics, by way of architecture, ecology and carnival. Without neglecting, of course, the unexpected dead ends of progress and of a future to be mourned.