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The journal Lignes pays homage to Miguel Abensour, who passed away in 2017, with a collection of texts which review the writings of this academic-and-editor, quite rightly described as a “libertarian thinker”. The seventeen contributions highlight in various ways Abensour’s line of argument, and his rejection, in respect of the dominant schools of thought, both left and right-wing, of our era. Rather than to “teach Abensour”, we ave chosen to focus here on two articles, by Monique Rouillé-Boireau and Louis Janover, which stimulate the reader’s awareness of that “present-day summons to utopia” underlying all Abensour’s work – a summons to re-think utopia as resistance against domination and as a struggle for an egalitarian community to be built in harmony with emancipatory ideas.