Franz J. Hinkelammert and the Utopian Innocence

Abstract

The theologian, philosopher and economist Franz J. Hinkelammert provides and analyses a form or a decisive conceptualization to understand and interpret the concept of utopia from a critical perspective, starting from our subcontinent. In this article we will try to question and to propose through his formulations a new conception of utopia. Such concept is criticized by the German-Latin American thinker, to formulate a revitalizing view of the term. For this reason, we turn to the utopian tradition of Latin American thought to redefine one of the founding elements of our philosophy. This essay aims to conceive a new utopian conceptualization, which requires a timely analysis of such concept, obviously this new formulation is unknown by Hinkelammert, but I return to his criticism of utopianism to reformulate the terms that refer to utopia.