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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index.

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Ernst Bloch's Philosophical Prose; A brief intellectual biography; Utopia as concept and form of life; Metaphysics of the instant; Philosophy of subjectivity and the shape of the inconstruable question; Not, Not-yet/being/conscious; Re-energizing Marx: Bloch's social philosophy; A brief excursus: Bloch and Heidegger; On the (im)possibilities of utopian philosophy; Notes; Chapter 2 Heidelberg's Apostles: Bloch Reading Lukács Reading Bloch; Episode One: Metaphysics of Tragedy; Episode Two: Theory of the Novel.

Episode Three: Grappling with TotalityEpisode Four: The Instant (Faust and The Phenomenology of Spirit); Notes; Chapter 3 Eschatology and Messianism: Bloch with Buber, Landauer and Rosenzweig; Being gnostic: Bloch's shibboleth; Eschatology and apocalyptics; Judaic filiations; Christian heretics; Hesitant conclusions: Tensions within messianic thought; Notes; Chapter 4 The Form of the Messianic: Bloch and Benjamin; Traces of biographies; Messianic subtexts of history; A digression: Bloch and Kant; Excursus: Redemption; Temporalities; Inconspicuous blemishes of metaphysics.

Bloch and Benjamin as secular mysticsRecapitulation: Tensions of messianism and the ways through them; Finale: Penultimately; Notes; Chapter 5 The Void of Utopia and the Violence of the System: Bloch contra Adorno; Notes; Conclusion: Drawing the Utopian Line; Bibliography; Index.

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