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The privatization of hope : Ernst Bloch and the future of Utopia / Peter Thompson and Slavoj Zizek, eds.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SIC (Durham, N.C.) ; 8.
- SIC ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bloch, Ernst, 1885-1977--Political and social views.
- Bloch, Ernst.
- Utopias.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Bloch and a philosophy of the proterior / by Wayne Hudson
- An anti-humanist Utopia? / by Vincent Geoghegan
- Ernst Bloch's dialectical anthropology / by Johan Siebers
- Religion, Utopia, and the metaphysics of contingency / by Peter Thompson
- The privatization of eschatology and myth : Ernst Bloch vs. Rudolph Bultmann / by Roland Boer
- The education of hope : on the dialectical potential of speculative materialism / by Catherine Moir
- Engendering the future : Bloch's utopian philosophy in dialogue with gender theory / by Caitríona Ní Dhúill
- The zero-point : encountering the dark emptiness of nothingness / by Frances Daly
- A Marxist poetics : allegory and reading in The Principle of Hope / by David Miller
- Singing summons the existence of the fountain : Bloch, music, and Utopia / by Ruth Levitas
- Transforming utopian into metopian systems : Bloch's principle of hope revisited / by Rainer E. Zimmermann
- Unlearning how to hope : eleven theses in defense of liberal democracy and consumer culture / by Henk de Berg
- Can we hope to walk tall in a computerized world of work? / by Francesca Vidal and Welf Schröter.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355892
- 0822355892
- 9780822377115
- 082237711X
- OCLC:
- 1139363029
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