Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism

Ontology, Epistemology, Politics

AvCat Moir

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Historical Materialism

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Beskrivning

In this important new approach to his philosophy and politics, Cat Moir sets out to offer a fresh interpretation of Ernst Bloch's work. The reception of Bloch's work has seen him variously painted as a naïve realist, a romantic nature philosopher, a totalitarian thinker, and an irrationalist whose obscure literary style stands in for a lack of systematic rigour. Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism challenges these conceptions of Bloch by reconstructing the ontological, epistemological, and political dimensions of his speculative materialism. Through a close, historically contextualised reading of Bloch's major work of ontology, Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz (The Materialism Problem, its History and Substance), Moir presents Bloch as one of the twentieth century's most significant critical thinkers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-12-22
Mått:152 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt:286 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Materialism
Antal sidor:193
Förlag:Haymarket Books
ISBN:9781642593495

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Cat Moir is Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on the history of ideas in the German-speaking world.

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“Readers from a range of backgrounds and interests will find much in this broad, varied and eminently readable study of an underappreciated thinker likely to become a first port of call for much future philosophical engagement with Bloch.”—Jack Kellam, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction1. The materialism problem2. OntologyNature contra mechanismMatter as the subject of natureThe logic of matterReal possibilityTeleology without a telos3. EpistemologyThe structure of the conceptThe influence of neo-KantianismThe role of ironyRationalism, empiricism, and practice4. PoliticsThe German Philosopher of the October Revolution?For Stalin, against HitlerThe Politics of Speculative MaterialismSpeculation, totality, and immanent critiqueChapter 5: Relevance and critiqueThe speculative turn: Bloch and MeillassouxNew materialism: Bloch and BennettEcological materialisms: Bloch, Foster, and MooreEpilogue: The speculative expanseBibliography