Bloch stood outside the positivist dispute as a ‘Marxist Schelling’

Evidence

What may also have divided them was that Bloch had all his life distanced himself from the academic system and from current disputes in philosophy and the philosophy of science and, unconcerned with controversies like the positivist dispute or the critique of Heidegger, stood out in the academic and intellectual landscape as a monolithic block, a `Marxist Schelling’, as Habermas once described him. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 610

Categorization

• DEFINE: Habermas’s epithet ‘Marxist Schelling’ captures Bloch’s monolithic, non-participatory intellectual stance.
• SHARE: A gift for a Frankfurt-School interlocutor: Habermas’s crack that Bloch was a ‘Marxist Schelling’.
• XREF: connects to: Bloch supported the Moscow show trials as defending socialism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 610; Bloch’s Marxism derives from Goethe’s Faust rather than Hegel — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 272; Bloch’s philosophy remains unread because it anticipates a hermeneutic not yet born
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Bloch supported the Moscow show trials as defending socialism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 610; Bloch’s Marxism derives from Goethe’s Faust rather than Hegel — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 272; Bloch’s philosophy remains unread because it anticipates a hermeneutic not yet born