Bloch’s philosophy is an open encyclopedic exploration of hope across every domain
Evidence
Hence the truly encyclopedic character of Bloch’s major work, Das Prinzip Hoffnung, which is less an ascending ladder of forms like Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit than it is a vast and disorderly exploration of the manifestations of hope on all levels of reality: from the ontological itself, in the central and crucial analysis of human time, fanning out to touch upon existential psychology (the meaning of such phenomena as anxiety and disappointment); ethics (the study of hope institutionalized in traditional ideals and values); logic (the conceptual categories of the possible); political science, both of a conventional type, in the studies of the various theories of the state and of social organization, and of a Marxist character, in the analysis of revolutionary strategy; the social planning inherent in the conception of Utopias of all kinds; Technik, not only in the sense of the scientific achievements of the world of the future, but also in terms of the way in which it alters our relationship to the objects around us; sociology, in the form of the analysis of the wish-fulfillments of advertising and popular culture; ideological and literary criticism, finally, in its all-embracing account of the archetypes of Utopia in art, myth, and religion. Thus Hope the Principle is necessarily unsystematic in its very conception: either too long or too short, its essential scheme may be rehearsed in a few pages or expanded indefinitely to match the infinite realities of the world itself. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 240
Categorization
- XREF: Bloch’s encyclopedic, deliberately unsystematic totality contrasts with Lukács’s systematic closed totality — a key distinction in Jameson’s dialectical lineage tracing. — connects to: Artistic categories for Bloch become modes of Utopian realization at the ontological level — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 290
Broader Connections
- Artistic categories for Bloch become modes of Utopian realization at the ontological level
#exemplifies(0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 290