DESPRE CONCEPTELE DE UTOPIE ŞI SUVERANITATE. O SCURTĂ PRIVIRE
On the concepts of Utopia and Sovereignity. An overview

Summary/Abstract: The contention ofthis paper is to try to show that concepts like utopia and sovereignity should be seen asbeing linked. Both are important concepts for modernity and both have some strongimaginary and symbolic backgrounds. And both of them ascribe to man a kind of godlystatus. Today we are still in the grip of utopia. Utopia implies sovereignty and that mancan do almost whatever he likes with nature, society, and himself. Sovereignty has thesame underpinning as utopia, and it is rooted, as the French philosopher Jean JacquesWunenburger has shown in the case of utopia, in the deep structures of humanimagination. Both sovereignity and utopia are also rooted in the structure or in thatparticular condition of man, which Arnold Gehlen named Mängelwesen andHandlungswesen. Despite its perceived desirability utopia is a manifestation of atotalitarian and disfunctional imagination, which works in alliance with the selfdivinizationof man implied by the concept of sovereignity.

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