Rethinking Ernst Bloch

Henk de Berg, Professor of German at the University of Sheffield, is the co-editor of Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas (Camden House, 2012) and the author of Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying (forthcoming).Cat Moir, Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies at the University of Sydney, is the author of Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism (Brill, 2019) and the co-editor of Reform, Revolution, and Crisis in Europe (Routledge, 2021).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Ernst Bloch: Life Work – ReceptionCat Moir2 Will There Be Nothing Rather Than Something? Ernst Bloch’s Overcoming of GnosticismAgata Bielik-Robson3 Art, History and the Language of Death: Bloch’s The Spirit of Utopia between Hegel and DerridaIvan Boldyrev4 Between Dialectics and Metaphysics: Critical Reflections on Bloch’s Subjekt-ObjektHenk de Berg5 Bloch’s Commentary on Marx’s ‘Theses on Feuerbach’ in The Principle of HopeVincent Geoghegan6 Natural Law in the Ideas of Bloch, Hegel and MarxismHolger Glinka7 The Matter of Bloch’s Philosophy of Nature in the Shadow of IdealismLoren Goldman8 Ernst Bloch’s Utopian Philosophy: From Hegel to Marx and BeyondDouglas Kellner9 What Can We Hope For? Reading Ernst Bloch with Antonio GramsciJan Rehmann10 The Possibility of Envisioning UtopiasNina Rismal11 Hegel, Marx, Bloch: On the Margins of the SpiritJohan Siebers and Sam Dolbear12 Something’s Missing: Bloch’s Unfinished Project of HumanityPeter ThompsonIndex