<p>The purpose of the following document is to present an analysis of modernity in its utopian sense, characterized by the idea of progress and continuous development, which would lead to a state of fullness giving a teleological meaning to human actions together with a blind trust in the Reason to transform reality into the concrete case of Western society; In the same way, it is shown how in postmodernism in the research and analysis carried out from the standpoint of critical theory this ideal is meaningless as it distorts its essential notes by questioning one of the conquests of modernity, such as freedom, transforming reality In a dystopia.</p>