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Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism Cat Moir

Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism By Cat Moir

Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism by Cat Moir


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Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism sets the record straight on one of the twentieth century's most significant critical thinkers.

Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism Summary

Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics by Cat Moir

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 naive 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.

About Cat Moir

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The materialism problem

2. Ontology
Nature contra mechanism
Matter as the subject of nature
The logic of matter
Real possibility
Teleology without a telos

3. Epistemology
The structure of the concept
The influence of neo-Kantianism
The role of irony
Rationalism, empiricism, and practice

4. Politics
The German Philosopher of the October Revolution?
For Stalin, against Hitler
The Politics of Speculative Materialism
Speculation, totality, and immanent critique
Chapter 5: Relevance and critique
The speculative turn: Bloch and Meillassoux
New materialism: Bloch and Bennett
Ecological materialisms: Bloch, Foster, and Moore

Epilogue: The speculative expanse

Bibliography

Additional information

NLS9781642593495
9781642593495
1642593494
Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics by Cat Moir
New
Paperback
Haymarket Books
2021-02-04
193
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