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Privatization of Hope Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia, SIC 8

Thompson, Peter Zizek, Slavoj
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk

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9780822355755
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2013-12-19
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Duke University Press
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581 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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UP, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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336

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Thompson, Peter
Zizek, Slavoj

Biographical note

Peter Thompson is Reader in German at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Crisis of the German Left.

Slavoj Žižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of many books, including Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism.

Privatization of Hope Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia, SIC 8

Thompson, Peter Zizek, Slavoj
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
Thompson, Peter Zizek, Slavoj
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
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The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), 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 Žižek
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The concept of hope was central to the German philosopher Ernst Bloch's work. Here, leading thinkers in utopian studies consider the insights that his work might offer the contemporary moment.
Acknowledgments xi Note of Editions and Translations xiii Preface / Slavoj Zizek xv Introduction: The Privatization of Hope and the Crisis of Negation / Peter Thompson 1 1. Bloch and a Philosophy of the Proterior / Wayne Hudson 21 2. An Anti-humanist Utopia? / Vincent Goeghegan 37 3. Ernst Bloch's Dialectical Anthropology / Johan Siebers 61 4. Religion, Utopia, and the Metaphysics of Contingency / Peter Thompson 82 5. The Privatization of Eschatology and Myth: Ernst Block vs. Rudolph Bultmann / Roland Boer 106 6. The Education of Hope: On the Dialectical Potential of Speculative Materialism / Catherine Moir 121 7. Engendering the Future: Bloch's Utopian Philosophy in Dialogue with Gender Theory / Caitríona Ní Dhúill 144 8. The Zero-Point: Encountering the Dark Emptiness of Nothingness / Frances Daly 164 9. A Marxist Poetics: Allegory and Reading in The Principle of Hope / David Miller 203 10. Singing Summons the Existence of the Fountain: Bloch, Music, and Utopia / Ruth Levitas 219 11. Transforming Utopian into Metopian Systems: Bloch's Principle of Hope Revisited / Rainer E. Zimmerman 246 12. Unlearning How to Hope: Eleven Theses in Defense of Liberal Democracy and Consumer Culture / Henk de Berg 269 13. Can We Hope to Walk Tall in a Computerized World of Work? / Francesca Vidal and Welf Schröter 288 Contributors 301 Index 305
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"Bloch . . . is one of the rare figures of whom we can say: fundamentally, with regard to what really matters, he was right, he remains our contemporary, and maybe he belongs even more to our time than to his own."—Slavoj Žižek, from the preface
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The concept of hope was central to the German philosopher Ernst Bloch's work. Here, leading thinkers in utopian studies consider the insights that his work might offer the contemporary moment.

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The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), 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 Žižek
Les mer
The concept of hope was central to the German philosopher Ernst Bloch's work. Here, leading thinkers in utopian studies consider the insights that his work might offer the contemporary moment.
Acknowledgments xi Note of Editions and Translations xiii Preface / Slavoj Zizek xv Introduction: The Privatization of Hope and the Crisis of Negation / Peter Thompson 1 1. Bloch and a Philosophy of the Proterior / Wayne Hudson 21 2. An Anti-humanist Utopia? / Vincent Goeghegan 37 3. Ernst Bloch's Dialectical Anthropology / Johan Siebers 61 4. Religion, Utopia, and the Metaphysics of Contingency / Peter Thompson 82 5. The Privatization of Eschatology and Myth: Ernst Block vs. Rudolph Bultmann / Roland Boer 106 6. The Education of Hope: On the Dialectical Potential of Speculative Materialism / Catherine Moir 121 7. Engendering the Future: Bloch's Utopian Philosophy in Dialogue with Gender Theory / Caitríona Ní Dhúill 144 8. The Zero-Point: Encountering the Dark Emptiness of Nothingness / Frances Daly 164 9. A Marxist Poetics: Allegory and Reading in The Principle of Hope / David Miller 203 10. Singing Summons the Existence of the Fountain: Bloch, Music, and Utopia / Ruth Levitas 219 11. Transforming Utopian into Metopian Systems: Bloch's Principle of Hope Revisited / Rainer E. Zimmerman 246 12. Unlearning How to Hope: Eleven Theses in Defense of Liberal Democracy and Consumer Culture / Henk de Berg 269 13. Can We Hope to Walk Tall in a Computerized World of Work? / Francesca Vidal and Welf Schröter 288 Contributors 301 Index 305
Les mer
"Bloch . . . is one of the rare figures of whom we can say: fundamentally, with regard to what really matters, he was right, he remains our contemporary, and maybe he belongs even more to our time than to his own."—Slavoj Žižek, from the preface
Les mer
The concept of hope was central to the German philosopher Ernst Bloch's work. Here, leading thinkers in utopian studies consider the insights that his work might offer the contemporary moment.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780822355755
Publisert
2013-12-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
581 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Redaktør
Thompson, Peter
Zizek, Slavoj

Biographical note

Peter Thompson is Reader in German at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Crisis of the German Left.

Slavoj Žižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of many books, including Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism.

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