{"product_id":"ernst-bloch-s-speculative-materialism-ontology-epistemology-politics-9789004272866","title":"Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, Cat Moir offers a new interpretation of the philosophy of Ernst Bloch. The reception of Bloch’s work has seen him variously painted as a naïve realist, a romantic nature philosopher, a totalitarian thinker, and an irrationalist whose obscure literary style stands in for a lack of systematic rigour. Moir challenges these conceptions of Bloch by reconstructing the ontological, epistemological, and political dimensions of his speculative materialism. Through a close, historically contextualised reading of Bloch’s major work of ontology, Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz (The Materialism Problem, its History and Substance), Moir presents Bloch as one of the twentieth century’s most significant critical thinkers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Overall, readers from a range of background and interests will find much in this broad, varied and eminently readable study of an underappreciated thinker likely to become a first port of call for much future philosophical engagement with Bloch.\" - Jack Kellam, in Marx \u0026amp; Philosophy Review of Books [Full review]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface    Introduction    1. The materialism problem    2. Ontology  Nature contra mechanism  Matter as the subject of nature  The logic of matter  Real possibility  Teleology without a telos    3. Epistemology  The structure of the concept  The influence of neo-Kantianism  The role of irony  Rationalism, empiricism, and practice    4. Politics  The German Philosopher of the October Revolution?  For Stalin, against Hitler  The Politics of Speculative Materialism  Speculation, totality, and immanent critique  Chapter 5: Relevance and critique  The speculative turn: Bloch and Meillassoux  New materialism: Bloch and Bennett  Ecological materialisms: Bloch, Foster, and Moore    Epilogue: The speculative expanse    Bibliography","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210651066711,"sku":"9789004272866","price":141.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ernst-bloch-s-speculative-materialism-ontology-epistemology-politics-9789004272866","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}