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Opis: Under conditions of generalized reified abstraction–a historically sedimented condition in which mediating forms forget they are mediating and present themselves as reality itself– utopia has lost its critical function and become indistinguishable from ideology. Where Paul Ricoeur argued that the tension between ideology and utopia is unsurpassable, this essay contends that the tension has already col lapsed. Utopia has been absorbed into ideology rather than correcting it, leaving what Marx called ‘the language of real life’ without a foothold. Against this diagnosis, the essay proposes Albert Camus’s notion of ‘relative utopia’ as a specifically adequate response to the conditions of reified abstraction, one that builds the critique of abstraction into its own structure by refusing the consolation of any ground, including the ground of hope itself. Reading Camus along side the nineteenth-century Balkan poet Konstantin Miladinov and his poem ‘T’ga za jug’ (Longing for the South), the essay argues that relative utopia is not a chastened utopianism but a form of first praxis, an orientation without innocence: limit, doubt, and attachment to the other and to a world accepted as flawed and yet worth the effort.
Ključne besede: relative utopia, abstraction, Albert Camus, Konstantin Miladinov, praxis
Objavljeno v RUP: 21.08.2026; Ogledov: 363; Prenosov: 8
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