Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries: Locating Utopian Messianism (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries is a much needed concise yet comprehensive overview of Ernst Blochs early and later thought. It fills an important gap in research on the history of German thought in the 20th century by reconstructing the contexts of Blochs philosophy, while focusing on his contemporaries - Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno. Ernst Blochs influential ideas include his theory of utopian consciousness, his resolute inclination to merge aesthetics and politics, rehabilitation of hope, and atheistic conception of Christianity. Although Blochs major early texts, Spirit of Utopia and Traces, have recently been translated into English, and there has been renewed interest in Bloch over the last 15 years, he is still relatively unknown compared to other left German-Jewish intellectuals. Ivan Boldyrev places Blochs often enigmatic prose within contexts more familiar to English-speaking readers, and outlines the most important messages in Blochs legacy still relevant today to European intellectual discourse, in particular aesthetics and philosophy of history.