ايديولوژي و اوتوپيا

Idelogy and Utopia

For the first time, Karl Manheim put ideology and utopia in unique framework sociology of knowledge. But Ricoeurʹs analysis in this article is more philosophical. Ideology and utopia, according to him, are two expressions of social imaginary. The author considers three levels for the two above concepts, and tries to panalize the levels of each concept with each other. To avoid pathologic forms of ideology and utopia, Ricoeur concludes, it is necessary to give correct function of ideology to utopia and it seems impossible except by the dialectical relation between the two concepts.