Existential Utopia_ New Perspectives on Utopian Thought

by: P. Vieira,M. Marder

Is there still any space, whether conceptual or practical, for the thinking of utopia—
which from the outset announces a certain negation of place, topos — in a world
marked by a chronic dystopian outlook? After more than 100 years of what Nietzsche
first diagnosed as “European nihilism,” dystopia has now firmly established itself as
the current Weltanschauung, a lens through which we filter historical reality. In the
West, the sense that all viable alternatives for a different political organization have
been exhausted led to widespread voter apathy, resignation, and nonparticipation in
the political sphere. Aesthetically, .............