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Политика утопије
The Politics of Utopia

Author(s): Fredric Jameson
Subject(s): Theory of Literature
Published by: Институт за књижевност и уметност
Keywords: utopia;politics;Thomas More;

Summary/Abstract: Utopia seems to be one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation. Does this peculiar entity still have a social function? How should we formulate the position of utopia with respect to the political? I would like to suggest that utopia emerges at the moment of the suspension of the political. Utopianism involves a certain distance from the political institutions which encourages an endless play of fantasy around their possible reconstructions and restructurations.

  • Issue Year: 51/2019
  • Issue No: 167
  • Page Range: 23-40
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian