L'UTOPIA POLITICA COME RISORSA PER IL REALISMO

Utopia, as a form of political imagination and as social criticism, is a phenomenon analyzed in a very heterogeneous way by academics. The aim of this article is to place political utopia within a broader theory of power. I intend, here, to shape a political space of coexistence between utopia and realism through the drawing of a matrix where themost important dimensions of politics are considered in their mutual relationships. In particular, with reference to the individual structure based on rationality and on emotionality, we can empirically observe how utopia and realism can work together along the coordinates of time and space, even observing concrete historical episodes in the European history.