Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism

Ontology, Epistemology, Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-27286-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 202/1, 181 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series / Bloch Bibliothek

In Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, Cat Moir offers a new interpretation of the philosophy of Ernst Bloch. 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. Moir 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moir, Cat

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Cat Moir, Ph.D. (2014), University of Sheffield, 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.