Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Note on Editions and Translations xiii
5. Preface: Bloch’s Ontology of Not-Yet- Being xv
6. Introduction: The Privatization of Hope and the Crisis of Negation 1
7. 1 Bloch and a Philosophy of the Proterior 21
8. 2 An Anti-humanist Utopia? 37
9. 3 Ernst Bloch’s Dialectical Anthropology 61
10. 4 Religion, Utopia, and the Metaphysics of Contingency 82
11. 5 The Privatization of Eschatology and Myth: Ernst Bloch vs. Rudolph Bultmann 106
12. 6 The Education of Hope: On the Dialectical Potential of Speculative Materialism 121
13. 7 Engendering the Future: Bloch’s Utopian Philosophy in Dialogue with Gender Theory 144
14. 8 The Zero-Point: Encountering the Dark Emptiness of Nothingness 164
15. 9 A Marxist Poetics: Allegory and Reading in The Principle of Hope 203
16. 10 Singing Summons the Existence of the Fountain: Bloch, Music, and Utopia 219
17. 11 Transforming Utopian into Metopian Systems: Bloch’s Principle of Hope Revisited 246
18. 12 Unlearning How to Hope: Eleven Theses in Defense of Liberal Democracy and Consumer Culture 269
19. 13 Can We Hope to Walk Tall in a Computerized World of Work? 288
20. Contributors 301
21. Index 305