Output details
28 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
University of Sheffield : A - Languages and Culture
Book title
The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia
Type
B - Edited book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Duke University Press
ISBN of book
9780822355755
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
I conceived, commissioned and presented this book project to Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek. Žižek agreed to publish it as co-editor in the SIC series he edits at Duke University Press and contributed a 2,500 word foreword at my invitation. The collection deals with what has happened to the concept of hope in the 50 years since Bloch wrote his Principle of Hope. My contribution is a substantial thematic introduction and a 9,000 word chapter on Bloch and “The Metaphysics of Contingency”, a new philosophical concept rooted in Aristotle, Hegel and Marx, dealing with the speculative dimension of contingent potentiality.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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