The essay elaborates on the talk the author delivered during the ceremony that took place after the liberation from prison of the UNIBO and honorary citizen of Bologna, Patrick Zaki. The essay elaborates on the following issues: the support of the university and city, the value of human rights, academic freedom, and public squares as spaces of democracy. It includes a longer part on utopia (as a literary genre and a political instrument of change) and hope, quoting academic scholars (Karl Mannheim, Ernst Bloch, Ursula Le Guin, Antonio Gramsci, Howard Zinn) and it explains the function of hope in utopia.
Rita Monticelli (2023). Postfazione. Utopia e speranza: Bologna per Patrick Zaki. MIlano : La nave di Teseo.
Postfazione. Utopia e speranza: Bologna per Patrick Zaki
Rita Monticelli
2023
Abstract
The essay elaborates on the talk the author delivered during the ceremony that took place after the liberation from prison of the UNIBO and honorary citizen of Bologna, Patrick Zaki. The essay elaborates on the following issues: the support of the university and city, the value of human rights, academic freedom, and public squares as spaces of democracy. It includes a longer part on utopia (as a literary genre and a political instrument of change) and hope, quoting academic scholars (Karl Mannheim, Ernst Bloch, Ursula Le Guin, Antonio Gramsci, Howard Zinn) and it explains the function of hope in utopia.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
