Being’s meaning is only disclosed retroactively from the utopian end of time.

Evidence

Yet for Bloch this is a riddle which is answered, not at the beginning, but at the very fulfillment of time itself: for the meaning of Being itself comes into being, if at all, only at the moment when the world passes over into Utopia, and when that final Utopian destination returns upon the past to confer a sense of direction upon it. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 256

Categorization

• XREF: This retroactive conferral of meaning from the end resonates with Walter Benjamin’s messianic past—the way the future redeems the past—and with the dialectical critic’s retrospective reading of cultural forms. Connects directly to Jameson’s ‘The Political Unconscious’ via retroactive determination. — connects to: Fully describing utopia would betray it because it is a becoming, not a being — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1539; ‘Being is what it is’ names only the in-itself, not all being.; At death a life becomes an in-itself whose meaning only others sustain. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 63 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fully describing utopia would betray it because it is a becoming, not a being #qualifies (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1539
• Utopia neutralizes death by making every present ontologically complete #contradicts (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 276
• At death a life becomes an in-itself whose meaning only others sustain. #complicates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 63
• ‘Being is what it is’ names only the in-itself, not all being. #complicates (0.72)