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Ideologies and Utopia: A Ricoeurian Reading of Thomas Piketty

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In his most recent books, Piketty offers a global history of ine-quality in its economic, social, political, and intellectual dimensions, ar-guing that history is moved by the struggle of ideologies. To take part in this battle of ideas, he conceives a new ideal model of society, ‘participa-tive socialism’, as an egalitarian alternative to the dominant neoproprie-tarian ideology and to the dangerous resurgence of nationalism and pop-ulism. This paper provides a new interpretation of Piketty’s view of his-tory and of his participatory socialism in light of Paul Ricoeur’s study of the dialectics of ideology and utopia. First, I present Ricoeur’s singular analysis of ideology and utopia, which he sees as two inseparable facets of social imagination. Then I show how Ricoeur’s concepts can be fruit-fully applied to Piketty’s conception of history and to his conception of a new form of socialism for the 21st century, drawing lessons from history and forming a ‘good’ or ‘realist’ utopia. Finally, I demonstrate that this interpretation of Piketty’s socialism can help to better understand some of the criticisms he has received. © 2023, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. All Rights Reserved.
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hal-04195650 , version 1 (04-09-2023)
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Benoît Walraevens. Ideologies and Utopia: A Ricoeurian Reading of Thomas Piketty. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2023, 16 (1), pp.1-27. ⟨10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.673⟩. ⟨hal-04195650v2⟩
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