Critique and Utopia: From Kant to the Frankfurt School

Roberto Mordacci is Pro-Rector for Humanities and Social Sciences at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, where he teaches Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of History, and Theory of Power. His main fields of research are Kantian ethics, the critique of postmodernism, utopian thought, and critical theory. He is the co-editor of the journal Filosofia Morale / Moral Philosophy. His most recent book is Respect and Power. The Foundations of Critical Ethics and Politics (Routledge, 2025).

• Chapter 1. Transcendental Critique.- Chapter 2. Dialectical Critique.- Chapter 3. Genealogical Critique.- Chapter 4. Messianic Critique.- Chapter 5. New Forms of Critique.- Chapter 6. Rethinking Utopia.- Chapter 7. The Utopian Method as Critique.