This part of the present issue, edited by Attilio Bruzzone, Guelfo Carbone e Elisabetta Colagrossi, collects most of the papers discussed at the international conference held in 2018 partly in Rome and partly in Genoa in order to celebrate the centenary of Bloch’s Geist der Utopie. The overarching aim is to showcase the dialogue between these two occasions and the shared intent to tackle, once again, this “incendiary” work by Bloch, which is a masterpiece of the political thought on the Utopia of the last century.