Autor: Nicoleta MIHAILESCU

Editura:  Cugetarea

Cod ISSN: 1221-4876, pp. 200-206

Abstract:

Both  ideology and Utopia obey to a logic of totality. While ideology consolidates what it had been called praxis, the Utopian writings are characterized by dispraising the logic of action. The logic of totality, which constitutes a common mark both for ideology and Utopia, is inevitably sending for another reality - that of complying with authority. We cannot fail to remark that, if in certain situations - when he is alone, isolated - the individual acts consciously, in the circumstance when he joins the masses, his behaviour becomes non-conscient, his thinking is mechanical, insensible to cantradiction - and this is part of obeying the authority mechanism. 

In contrast to Utopia, which - in most cases - is bound to a non-temporal and to a non-spatial aesthetism, ideology - together with the publicitary techniques - represents a generous source of propaganda. If the Utopian writings, beginning with the modern ones, circulated between the literati, the philosophers or the politicians, ideology proves its real force by an overwhelming spreading capacity. It has to be done a clear distinction between the two terms, so much so that ideology can action over the praxis without pathologically denaturating it, and the Utopia can conceive another reality, but without the fury to bring it to practice.