TY - BOOK AU - Boldyrev,Ivan TI - Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries: Locating Utopian Messianism T2 - Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy SN - 9781472512062 AV - B3209.B754 U1 - 335.401 22 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Publishing KW - Bloch, Ernst, KW - Social & political philosophy KW - bicssc KW - Philosophy, German KW - 20th century KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Ideologies KW - Communism & Socialism KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Jüdische Philosophie KW - gnd KW - Messianismus KW - Neomarxismus KW - Utopie KW - Literary studies: general KW - Philosophy KW - Criticism KW - Political KW - Literary Criticism KW - European KW - German KW - Electronic books N1 - Academic; 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; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) ER -