1980
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Henri Desroche, « De l’utopie comme champ d’alternatives à partir des contrastes entre le projet coopératif et les projets auto-gestionnaires », Autogestions, ID : 10.3406/autog.1980.1340
Utopia in search of a praxis, praxis in search of an utopia : these are the terms in which projects of self-management and cooperatives are analysed. On this basis, we may consider seven aspects of utopia : (1) the utopian models of a family-less, property-less, state-less, God-less society ; (2) its possible variations according to the relative weight accorded one or another of these elements ; (3) the ambiguity of the utopian tradition ; (4) the fine determination of the timing for utopias, between “ too late ” and “ too quick ” ; (5) the difficult task of separating “ good ” from “ bad ” utopia ; (6) who will be the defenser of utopia before the tribunal of history, if not utopia itself ? (7) hence the necessity to found a science of utopia, i.e. to conserve, to treat and elaborate utopias.