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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a critical re-assessment of the thought of Ernst Bloch, best-known for his groundbreaking study The Principle of Hope and one of the most significant European thinkers and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. It explores Bloch’s life, work and reception; his debt to Marx and Hegel; his central concepts of hope and utopia; his affinities with philosophers such as Gramsci and Žižek; and his radical reframing of our understanding of history, society and culture. Above all, this volume examines the relevance of Bloch’s ideas today, in a world still shot through with economic inequality and social injustice. Contributors are: Agata Bielik-Robson, Ivan Boldyrev, Henk de Berg, Sam Dolbear, Vincent Geoghegan, Holger Glinka, Loren Goldman, Douglas Kellner, Cat Moir, Jan Rehmann, Nina Rismal, Johan Siebers, and Peter Thompson
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Ernst Bloch: Life Work – Reception Cat Moir 2 Will There Be Nothing Rather Than Something? Ernst Bloch’s Overcoming of Gnosticism Agata Bielik-Robson 3 Art, History and the Language of Death: Bloch’s The Spirit of Utopia between Hegel and Derrida Ivan Boldyrev 4 Between Dialectics and Metaphysics: Critical Reflections on Bloch’s Subjekt-Objekt Henk de Berg 5 Bloch’s Commentary on Marx’s ‘Theses on Feuerbach’ in The Principle of Hope Vincent Geoghegan 6 Natural Law in the Ideas of Bloch, Hegel and Marxism Holger Glinka 7 The Matter of Bloch’s Philosophy of Nature in the Shadow of Idealism Loren Goldman 8 Ernst Bloch’s Utopian Philosophy: From Hegel to Marx and Beyond Douglas Kellner 9 What Can We Hope For? Reading Ernst Bloch with Antonio Gramsci Jan Rehmann 10 The Possibility of Envisioning Utopias Nina Rismal 11 Hegel, Marx, Bloch: On the Margins of the Spirit Johan Siebers and Sam Dolbear 12 Something’s Missing: Bloch’s Unfinished Project of Humanity Peter Thompson Index
