Bloch’s hermeneutics treats conceptual falsehood as a disguised carrier of truth

Evidence

Any description of Bloch’s ontology must, it seems to me, distinguish sharply between the philosophical system—for which there is a right and a wrong way of presenting human reality, for which the judgments of truth and falsehood still exist as valid conceptual categories—and its hermeneutic use, in which the “false” is but a disguise of the “true,” in which that which is wrong on a purely conceptual level may itself ultimately be delivered of that secret truth which dwells within it as a figure and which lends it even that vitality which it possesses. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 246

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the key distinction between Bloch’s philosophical system (truth/falsehood apply) and its hermeneutic use (the false shelters the true).
• XREF: This is the Benjamin-inflected move — reading the false, ideology, and myth for their utopian core — that Jameson carries into his own dialectical method, and it connects to Adorno’s negative dialectics as the alternative pole. — connects to: Bloch’s philosophy remains unread because it anticipates a hermeneutic not yet born; Criticism for Bloch means deciphering meaning hidden beneath works and objects; Hermeneutics requires both suspicion and attentive listening — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 6814 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A claim’s falsity does not bar it from structuring thought #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 179
• Bloch’s philosophy remains unread because it anticipates a hermeneutic not yet born #expands (0.82)
• Criticism for Bloch means deciphering meaning hidden beneath works and objects #expands (0.78)
• Hermeneutics requires both suspicion and attentive listening #expands (0.74) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 6814