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The Spirit of Utopia

Name: The Spirit of Utopia
Brand: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780804737647
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By Ernst Bloch, Translated by Anthony A. Nassar
Imprint: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: October 30, 2000
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 153 mm
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Pages: 320

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The Spirit of Utopia is one of the great historic books from the beginning of the century, but it is not an obsolete one. In its style of thinking, a peculiar amalgam of biblical, Marxist, and Expressionist turns, in its analytical skills deeply informed by Simmel, taking its information from both Hegel and Schopenhauer for the groundwork of its metaphysics of music but consistently interpreting the cultural legacy in the light of a certain Marxism, Bloch s Spirit of Utopia is a unique attempt to rethink the history of Western civilizations as a process of revolutionary disruptions and to reread the artworks, religions, and philosophies of this tradition as incentives to continue disrupting.

Objective (1918,1923) Part I. The Self-Encounter: 1. The production of the ornament 2. The philosophy of music 3. The shape of the inconstruable question Part II. Karl Marx, Death, and the Apocalypse: Afterword Translator's notes Index of names.

"When this book was first published, it had a profound effect on major thinkers and artists in Weimar Germany. A poetical philosophical treatise with unusual insights into culture and political commentary, Bloch's book laid the groundwork for thinkers like Adorno and Benjamin." - Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota

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