Il respiro utopico della filosofia. Giovanni Ferretti in dialogo con Ernst Bloch

This paper investigates Giovanni Ferretti’s interpretation of Ernst Bloch and, consequently, the heuristic paths Ferretti outlines from this dialogue. Despite the exclusion of faith in divine transcendence, Bloch contributed to the confrontation between ontology, hermeneutics of history, exegesis of Scripture and theology, taking up the eschatological field as a crossroads at which to discuss together the fate of homo absconditus and the divine. The reference is to «utopia as an inheritance», with which Ferretti raises the question of the centrality of the utopian function. Without the courage to cross the boundaries of what an era and a culture declare “possible”, delimiting the frontier beyond which the dark space of the “impossible” remains, human thought implodes. In this sense, the utopian function is not a particularly optimistic conception, it is a constitutive dimension of critical thinking, it is the breath of philosophy. Through the confrontation with micrological ontology and the nexus between dialectics and hermeneutics, the author refers to utopian hope, investigating its foundation at once ontological and ethical.