Bloch treats art as secular completion of the world’s promised unity

Evidence

In this context the various techniques or categories of the work of art take on their ultimate meaning only when their analysis is pursued as far as the ontological level itself, where they become transparent as modes of Utopian realization: “Art is at one and the same time a laboratory and a carnival of possibilities brought to fulfillment.” — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 290 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The world’s unity is material and shown through accumulated inquiry; 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 #expands (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 290
• The world’s unity is material and shown through accumulated inquiry #qualifies (0.85)