Ernst Bloch The Pugnacious Philosopher of Hope /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Zipes, Jack (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-20th century.; European literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; European Literature.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volume opus, The Principle of Hope, while living in exile in the United States from 1938 to 1940. It was fi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Reintroducing Bloch: In Pursuit of Utopia
• 2. The Struggle against the Obscenity of Hope
• 3. Ernst Bloch and the Dialectics of Obscenity and Inequality
• 4. The Pugnacity and Speculation of Hope, or Why We Want a Better World
• 5. The Messianic Power of Fantasy in the Bible
• 6. Ernst Bloch's Enlightened View of the Fairy Tale and Utopian Longing
• 7. The Utopian Function of Fairy Tales and Fantasy: Ernst Bloch the Marxist and J. R. R. Tolkien the Catholic
• 8. Kitsch, Colportage, and the Liberating Potential of Vor-Schein in Fairy Tales
• 9. Epilogue: Why Hope?