Its rationale rests on two main premises: the great topicality of both Italian contemporary philosophy (the so-called “Italian Theory”) and of the animal question (the so-called “animal turn” in the humanities and the social sciences) in the contemporary philosophical panorama. PLEASE CONTACT THE AUTHOR IF YOU WANT TO ACCESS THE PAPER.This volume provides an overview of contemporary Italian philosophy from the perspective of animality. It concludes despite the shortcomings of the Zapatistas, the movement, through utopian spaces of dialogical politics and spaces for political experiments, creates a coherence between the subjective / collective imaginary of the people and the institutions, and places the utopia to “here and now” as part of their resistance. By presenting the discourse and the institutional designs of the Zapatista movement, it argues that despite the tensions between such movements’ visible anti-formalism and their intention to construct a radical utopia for radical social change, the Zapatista movement has created ways to incorporate the three features utopias entail - subjective imaginations, collective political will, and realization – simultaneously and on all levels into its radical utopia. This paper studies the utopian nature of the movement’s political project analyzing it under the category of radical utopias. The Zapatista movement with its resilience despite ongoing conflict and hardships in the region and its increasing move towards the offensive by constructing an alternative project offers a response to this question.

Having left 2011 behind, the question concerning the possibilities for and obstacles to the utopian projects of movements like Occupy!, Indignados, and the autonomist groups in the Arab Spring begs an answer. pass beyond existing institutional frameworks and emphasize an autonomous, horizontal, and anti-power politics in the post-Cold War era. The Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico has been the first example of the rising radical movements that aim to implement utopian projects, i.e. The conclusion of this paper is that the phenomenon of desire for the utopia is part of our experience that arises from the hope amidst the experience of human suffering in dialogue between these two thinkers. This comparative approach between Ricoeur and Bloch’s notions on utopia will be tackled based on these themes: a.) Critique of past utopian ideas before Marx b.) Marxist idea on utopian society c.) Critique of Hegel’s “end of history” d.) Idea of the ending of human sufferings and e.) Their interpretations with what will they offer for humanity’s hope. The theoretical framework will be used in this research are Hermeneutic phenomenology and Marxist Hermeneutics. Every culture has an ideal society which they wish to attain. That’s why utopia reveals itself in music, arts, literature and even in religion, myths, philosophies, socio-political views and theories. Common visionaries and philosophers have many ideas on what society or the world we should have in the future. Utopia is a place or a world that is perfect which most of the people believed that it does not and will never exist. Aside from experiencing sufferings and despair, there is such a thing we all commonly share: “The hope for a perfect world where the struggles end and the end of human sufferings have been realized.” This is what we called as the vision of “utopia”. This research will examine the similarities between Paul Ricoeur’s and Ernst Bloch’s notions of utopia.

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