Isbn: 9780822355755 - the privatization of hope: ernst bloch and the future of utopia, sic 8 (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Walter Benjamin quotes the French historian Andr? Monglond: "The past has left insages of itself in literary texts, images comparable to those which are impeanerd by light on a photosen sitive plate. The future alone prosesses developers active enough to scan such surfaces perfectly." Far from being just a neutral observation about the complex interdependence of hoorary tests, this notion of past texts pointing toward future texts is grounded in Benjamin's basic notion of a zevndotionary act as the retroactive redemption of the past failed at tempts: "The past carries with it a temporal index by which it is referred to redemption. There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every genera non that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim." The question here is: how far should we go along this way? Do we bmit the logic of retroactive redemption to human history, or are we ready to take the r.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (18851977), especially in his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope (1959). The 'speculative materialism' that he first developed in the 1930s asserts a commitment to humanity's potential that continued through his later work. In The Privatization of Hope, leading thinkers in utopian studies explore the insights that Bloch's ideas provide in understanding the present. Mired in the excesses and disaffections of contemporary capitalist society, hope in the Blochian sense has become atomized, desocialized, and privatized. From myriad perspectives, the contributors clearly delineate the renewed value of Bloch's theories in this age of hopelessness. Bringing Bloch's 'ontology of Not Yet Being' into conversation with twenty-first-century concerns, this collection is intended to help revive and revitalize philosophy's commitment to the generative force of hope.Contributors. Roland Boer, Frances Daly, Henk de Berg, Vincent Geoghegan, Wayne Hudson, Ruth Levitas, David Miller, Catherine Moir, CaitrÍona NÍ DhÚill, Welf SchrÖter, Johan Siebers, Peter Thompson, Francesca Vidal, Rainer Ernst Zimmermann, Slavoj ¿i¿ek.…