Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries : Locating Utopian Messianism /: Locating Utopian Messianism. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ivan Boldyrev.
• Other Names: Boldyrev, Ivan, 1933-
• Contents: Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Ernst Bloch's Philosophical Prose; A brief intellectual biography; Utopia as concept and form of life; Metaphysics of the instant; Philosophy of subjectivity and the shape of the inconstruable question; Not, Not-yet/being/conscious; Re-energizing Marx: Bloch's social philosophy; A brief excursus: Bloch and Heidegger; On the (im)possibilities of utopian philosophy; Notes; Chapter 2 Heidelberg's Apostles: Bloch Reading Lukács Reading Bloch; Episode One: Metaphysics of Tragedy; Episode Two: Theory of the Novel. Episode Three: Grappling with TotalityEpisode Four: The Instant (Faust and The Phenomenology of Spirit); Notes; Chapter 3 Eschatology and Messianism: Bloch with Buber, Landauer and Rosenzweig; Being gnostic: Bloch's shibboleth; Eschatology and apocalyptics; Judaic filiations; Christian heretics; Hesitant conclusions: Tensions within messianic thought; Notes; Chapter 4 The Form of the Messianic: Bloch and Benjamin; Traces of biographies; Messianic subtexts of history; A digression: Bloch and Kant; Excursus: Redemption; Temporalities; Inconspicuous blemishes of metaphysics. Bloch and Benjamin as secular mysticsRecapitulation: Tensions of messianism and the ways through them; Finale: Penultimately; Notes; Chapter 5 The Void of Utopia and the Violence of the System: Bloch contra Adorno; Notes; Conclusion: Drawing the Utopian Line; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (209 pages)
• Subjects: 335.401; Social & political philosophy; Philosophy, German -- 20th century; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism; Philosophy, German; Jüdische Philosophie; Messianismus; Neomarxismus; Utopie; Literary studies: general; Philosophy -- Criticism; Philosophy -- Political; Literary Criticism -- European -- German; Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472512062; 1472512065; 9781472505347; 1472505344; 1306724163; 9781306724166
• Related ISBNs: 9781472511768; 147251176X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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