Bloch’s philosophy remains unread because it anticipates a hermeneutic not yet born

Evidence

Why was it a philosophy, and not a theory, of society? However much Adorno might wish to emphasize the primacy of substantive thought' and promise a concretization of philosophy that would be more than spuriouswhy substantive philosophy and not a material theory of society? The introduction began: … Philosophy, which once seemed obsolete, lives on because the moment to realize it was missed. The summary judgement that it had merely interpreted the world, that resignation in the face of reality had crippled it in itself, becomes a defeatism of reason after the attempt to change the world miscarried . . . Perhaps it was an inadequate interpretation which promised that it would be put into practice. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2529</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bloch’s hermeneutics treats conceptual falsehood as a disguised carrier of truth — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 246; For Bloch the present moment is structurally unknowable, a blind spot in experience; Philosophy survives because the moment to realize it was missed — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2529

Broader Connections

• Philosophy survives because the moment to realize it was missed #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2529