UTOPIA: ON IMPOSSIBLE AS POLITICAL QUESTION

This paper constitutes an analysis on historical contents of utopia. In this sense, it articulates reflections by Souza and Finley on classical utopias as well as develops the contemporaneity of this concept by Marcuse ́s perspective on “end of utopia”. At the end, the paper intends to understand utopical thinking as a critical thinking on Modernity.O artigo é uma análise do caráter histórico de utopia. Para tanto, articula as reflexões de Souza e Finley sobre as utopias clássicas e desdobra a contemporaneidade do conceito pela perspectiva de Marcuse sobre o “fim da utopia”. Nesse sentido, o artigo opera o pensamento utópico enquanto crítica da Modernidade