Abstract

Messianism, representing the meeting and fusion place between different instances, coming from multiple religions, philosophies and cultural contexts, taken as a technical term, constitutes one of the fundamental signatures that allow us to interpret Western culture, its evolution and current configurations. In today’s historical-cultural context, the renewed proposition of the theme of the future perspective and messianic utopias, especially, after the positivist and technocratic scientific reductionisms and in a time in which the messianic instances, due to geopolitical solicitations and remodulations, always go moreover, characterizing itself as a form of general mythology of reference, such as to assume, at times, an equivocally and falsely revolutionary political profile, messianism no longer seems to indicate only the expectation of a salvation achieved by a future messiah in the of religion, specifically Judeo-Christian, but it includes various social, political and religious movements that tend to renew society and to give an answer to all the problems of uncertainty and anguish that oppress it. From this point of view, messianism seems to be constituted as a metanarrative, created through myths, strongly populist, which, having the aim of constructing, hypostatizing it, a collective subject which, in fact, is neither identifiable nor experienceable, nourishes the persistent desire for the novum which must, however, be continually invoked as indifferent, profiling an "imaginal world", in which all the symbolic acts constructed through a lexicon that intends to guide the members of this collective subject to give themselves identity and membership.