República mista e transparência política em O ano 2440: a utopia futurista de Mercier
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2023-06-28
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The Year 2440 by Louis-Sébastien Mercier was first published in
1771, becoming a real bestseller in pre-Revolutionary France. In his work of
utopian fantasy, Mercier makes the narrator of the story relate his extraordi nary dream with Paris in the 25th century, which allowed the author to carry
out a literary exercise to idealize a time to come full of social, political and
moral improvements. It is not difficult to see that the central characteristics of
this futuristic fiction are deeply rooted in values preached by Enlightenment
thought, and with a substantial dose of republican inspiration. The France of
2440 seems to appear as the inevitable result of the progress of the Enlighten ment, a time when political oppression and the other evils of the Ancient Re gime would have been definitively purged. In view of this, I intend to analyze
some of the main elements of the work, in order to discuss Mercier's concep tions that configure his vision of a well-ordered society, based on the political
ideals that inform both his criticism of the conditions in force in the 18th
century, as well as the solutions he points out to overcome the errors he saw
in this picture. Among these solutions, I will highlight the structure of the
mixed republic that permeates the organization of powers in the constitution
of this utopia, together with various forms of political transparency that would
provide visibility and accountability for the acts of its public agents.
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Mercier, Utopia, República mista, Transparência política, Mixed republic, Political transparency
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MOSCATELI, Renato. República mista e transparência política em O ano 2440: a utopia futurista de Mercier. Philósophos, Goiânia, v. 28, n. 1, p. 1-41, jan./jun. 2023. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v28i1.76062. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/76062/39976. Acesso em: 26 dez. 2023.