Il tema dell’utopia nell’opera di Lévinas Lévinas and Utopia

la Società Degli Individui 16 (2003)
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Il termine e il concetto di utopia ricorrono ripetutamente nell’opera di Lévinas, assumendo in essa almeno tre significati diversi che l’Autore sinteticamente esplicita: un significato peggiorativo, quello dell’ «utopia», quale è intesa dal cristianesimo, come «fuga dal mondo» e «ricerca di una salvezza da anacoreta», che Lévinas critica nettamente; l’accezione di «utopia» forse più presente nell’opera levinasiana, quella dell’utopia come «fare Israele», «dedizione verso un mondo a venire», verso «un mondo da compiere»; e, infine, il significato etimologico del termine «utopia», il più profondo e, di conseguenza, quello che fonda i precedenti: l’«utopia» come «non-luogo», «luogo aperto da occupare», «defezione di ogni dimensione».The expression and the concept of utopia repeatedly appears in Lévinas’ work. They assume at least three different meanings, explicitly synthetized by the Author: a pejorative meaning, sharply criticised by Lévinas, the Christian one of utopia as «escape from the world» and «research for a salvation as an anchorite». Perhaps, the most widespread meaning of utopia in Lévinas’ work is the one of utopia as «doing Israel», «abnegation towards a world to come», towards a «world to be fulfilled». At last, the etymological meaning of utopia, the deepest and, consequently, the one founding the previous meanings: «utopia as non-place», «open place to be occupied», «defection of every dimension»

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