Criticism for Bloch means deciphering meaning hidden beneath works and objects

Evidence

Thus for Bloch the world is an immense storehouse of figures, and the task of philosopher or critic becomes a hermeneutic one to the degree that he is called upon to pierce this “incognito of every lived instant,” and to decipher the dimly vibrating meaning beneath the fables and the works, the experiences and the objects, which surrounding us seem to solicit our attention in some peculiarly personal fashion. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 280

Categorization

• XREF: This is the hermeneutic method Jameson inherits via Bloch into the Frankfurt School lineage the reader is tracing — the critic as decoder of latent utopian content. — connects to: Bloch’s hermeneutics treats conceptual falsehood as a disguised carrier of truth — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 246; Content analysis that merely enumerates acts misses meaning conveyed by structural opposition. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 795; Critical explanation cannot stand outside the structure it criticizes — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 323
• SEED: Possible essay: ‘the incognito of every lived instant’ as a method for reading objects as utopian symbols — a Jamesonian close-reading practice.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Bloch’s hermeneutics treats conceptual falsehood as a disguised carrier of truth — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 246; Content analysis that merely enumerates acts misses meaning conveyed by structural opposition. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 795; Critical explanation cannot stand outside the structure it criticizes — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 323

Broader Connections

• Critical explanation cannot stand outside the structure it criticizes #complicates (0.75) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 323