Ernst Bloch S Speculative Materialism

Author : Cat Moir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004272873

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Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism by Cat Moir Pdf

In Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, Cat Moir offers a new interpretation of the philosophy of Ernst Bloch. The reception of Bloch’s work has seen him variously painted as a naïve realist, a romantic nature philosopher, a totalitarian thinker, and an irrationalist whose obscure literary style stands in for a lack of systematic rigour. Moir challenges these conceptions of Bloch by reconstructing the ontological, epistemological, and political dimensions of his speculative materialism. Through a close, historically contextualised reading of Bloch’s major work of ontology, Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz (The Materialism Problem, its History and Substance), Moir presents Bloch as one of the twentieth century’s most significant critical thinkers.

Author : Cat Moir
Publisher : Historical Materialism
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 1642593494

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Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism by Cat Moir Pdf

Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism sets the record straight on one of the twentieth century's most significant critical thinkers.

Author : Cat Moir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Materialism
ISBN : 9004272860

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Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism by Cat Moir Pdf

In Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, Cat Moir offers a new interpretation of the philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Moir challenges perceptions of Bloch as a naïve utopian thinker via a close contextualised reading of his speculative materialism.

Author : Nathaniel Barron
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004680593

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Language in Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism by Nathaniel Barron Pdf

Nathaniel Barron offers the first book length account in English of Ernst Bloch’s contribution to a Marxist philosophy of language. It is ambitious both in situating Bloch’s ideas in the broader Marxist engagement with language as it currently exists, and in using Bloch’s utopian categories to challenge that engagement. In particular, Barron reads Voloshinov’s insights into language through Bloch’s categories, and argues that Bloch advances on Voloshinov by offering an understanding of the social materiality of language which is more useful for challenging fascist forms of utterance.

Author : Peter Thompson,Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822377115

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The Privatization of Hope by Peter Thompson,Slavoj Zizek Pdf

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

Author : Ernst Bloch
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231548144

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Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left by Ernst Bloch Pdf

Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries. Known for his engagement with utopianism and religious thought, Bloch also wrote incisively about ontological questions. In his short masterpiece Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left, Bloch gives a striking account of materialism that traces emancipatory elements of modern thought to medieval Islamic philosophers’ encounter with Aristotle. Bloch argues that the great medieval Islamic philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sina) planted the seeds of a radical materialism still relevant for critical theory today. He contrasts Avicenna’s and Aquinas’s interpretations of Aristotle on form and matter to argue that Avicenna’s reading democratizes power and undermines clerical and political authority. Bloch explores Avicenna’s world and metaphysics in detail, showing how even his most recondite theoretical concerns prove capable of pointing toward radical social transformation. He blazes an original path through the history of ideas, including Averroes (Ibn Rushd), Spinoza, and Marx as well as lesser-known figures. Here translated into English for the first time, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left is at once a succinct summation of Bloch’s own idiosyncratic materialism, a provocative reconstruction of the Western philosophical tradition in light of its exchanges with Islamic thought, and a vital resource for contemporary debates about materialism in critical theory.

Author : Wayne Hudson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1982-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349042906

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The Marxist Philosophy of Ernst Bloch by Wayne Hudson Pdf

Author : Jamie Owen Daniel,Tom Moylan
Publisher : Verso
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0860916839

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Not Yet by Jamie Owen Daniel,Tom Moylan Pdf

The essays gathered here recommend the work of Ernest Bloch as a challenge to older models of historical materialism and utopian emancipation and give specific examples of how Bloch's work can contribute to current debates about utopia, nationalism, collective memory, and the complex relationship between ideology and everyday life.

Author : Jamie Owen Daniel,Tom Moylan
Publisher : Verso
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0860914399

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Not Yet by Jamie Owen Daniel,Tom Moylan Pdf

Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) is now recognized as a philosopher and cultural critic of the greatest importance, his subtle and profound developments of utopian Marxism as influential for the student New Left of the 1960s and 1970s as they were for the leftist movements of the twenties. Today, in the United States and Britain, his enormous body of work is attracting a new generation of readers: more translations are appearing, and his utopian thought is finding a new resonance in many different contexts. Several of the authors here address the centrality of a radically unconventional concept of utopia to Bloch's thought; others write on the question of memory and pedagogical theory. There is a Blochian reading of crime fiction, illuminating overviews of Bloch's work and an exploration of the stylistics of hope in Bloch's Spuren, as well as a translation of excerpts from that extraordinary book. The essays gathered are intended, above all, to recommend Bloch's work as a challenge to older models of historical materialism and utopian emancipation, and give specific examples of how that work can contribute to current debates about utopia, nationalism and collective memory, the liberatory content of popular cultural forms, and the complex relationship between ideology and everyday life. Together they provide a timely introduction to one of the most inspiring thinkers of the twentieth century. Contributors include: Klaus Berghahn, Tim Dayton, Vincent Geoghagan, Henry Giroux, David Kaufmann, Mary Layoun, Ruth Levitas, Peter McLaren, Tom Moylan, Darko Suvin and Jack Zipes.

Author : Adrian Johnston
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810166622

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Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism by Adrian Johnston Pdf

Adrian Johnston’s Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, planned for three volumes, will lay the foundations for a new materialist theoretical apparatus, his “transcendental materialism.” In this first volume, Johnston clears an opening within contemporary philosophy and theory for his unique position. He engages closely with Lacan, Badiou, and Meillassoux, demonstrating how each of these philosophers can be seen as failing to forge an authentically atheistic materialism. Johnston builds a new materialism both profoundly influenced by these brilliant comrades of a shared cause as well as making up for the shortcomings of their own creative attempts to bring to realization the Lacanian vision of an Other-less, One-less ontology. The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy yields intellectual weapons suitable for deployment on multiple fronts simultaneously, effective against the mutually entangled spiritualist and scientistic foes of our post-Enlightenment, biopolitical era of nothing more than commodities and currencies.

Author : Ernst Bloch
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789604559

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Atheism in Christianity by Ernst Bloch Pdf

In the twenty-first century, religion has come under determined attack from secular progressives in documentaries, opinion pieces and international bestsellers. Combative atheists have denounced faiths of every stripe, resulting in a crude intellectual polarization in which religious convictions and heritage must be rejected or accepted wholesale. In the long unavailable Atheism in Christianity, Ernst Bloch provides a way out from this either/or debate. He examines the origins of Christianity in an attempt to find its social roots, pursuing a detailed study of the Bible and its fascination for 'ordinary and unimportant' people. In the biblical promise of utopia and the scriptures' antagonism to authority, Bloch locates Christianity's appeal to the oppressed. Through a lyrical yet close and nuanced analysis, he explores the tensions within the Bible that promote atheism as a counter to the authoritarian metaphysical theism imposed by clerical exegesis. At the Bible's heart he finds a heretical core and the concealed message that, paradoxically, a good Christian must necessarily be a good atheist. This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Thompson, the Director of the Centre for Enrst Bloch Studies at the University of Sheffield.

Author : Ernst Bloch
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786636072

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On Karl Marx by Ernst Bloch Pdf

“In 1968 we celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. We still have reason to hope for a concrete celebration in 2018” With a demonstrably thorough grasp of Marxist thought, and seemingly effortless literary flair, Ernst Bloch provides both the well-versed reader and the novice a truly enjoyable introduction to one of the most influential thinkers in history.

Author : Sevgi Dogan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498571883

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Marx and Hegel on the Dialectic of the Individual and the Social by Sevgi Dogan Pdf

Marx and Hegel on the Dialectic of the Individual and the Social is a detailed investigation of the major works of Hegel and the young Marx exploring how the concept of the individual is positioned within their ontologies and how this positioning is reflected in their related political views.

Author : Lorenz B. Puntel,Alan White
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810127708

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Being and God by Lorenz B. Puntel,Alan White Pdf

The main thesis of this book is that it is philosophically reasonable, intelligible, and appropriate to raise questions about God, and to provide answers to those questions that are rational only within the framework of a conception of reality or being as a whole.

Author : Iain Hamilton Grant
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847064325

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Philosophies of Nature After Schelling by Iain Hamilton Grant Pdf

A lucid and crucial account of Schelling's major works in the philosophy of nature, now available in paperback.