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51 | What is Utopia? Part III. Hermeneutics and Utopia: From Hans-Georg Gadamer to Ernst Bloch (Part 2) (Patreon)

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In Part Two of our two-part mini-series we discuss the work of Ernst Bloch’s The Principle of Hope. We ask what difference there is between the thought of Bloch and Theodor Adorno, how hope and utopia enable political action, and why so many traditions seem to abhor the concept of utopia. Expand your horizons and come learn how to hope again in this episode!

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References:

Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope, vols. 1 &3, trans. Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice & Paul Knight (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1986).

Ernst Bloch and Theodor Adorno, “Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing (1964)” in Ernst Bloch, The Utopian Function of Art and Literature, trans. Jack Zipes and Frank Mecklenburg (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1988).

Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

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Alan Rudy

My grad advisor, Jim O'Connor, did a good bit of work on the general Marxist silence around modes of cooperation - noting the cooperation has far too often been ceded to anarchists. It was the way he brought working class material culture into an organizing-oriented analytic elaboration of forces and/vs relations given that cooperation is both force and relation. It was written in that highly structured forces-relations language of the late-70s/early-80s but stressed normative agency as part of the struggle to democratize production... and easily translated into his later analysis of efforts to democratize the state's mediation of the ecological, social and communal conditions necessary for commodity production oriented to the expanded reproduction of capital... as well as an understanding of the ways environmentalism, feminism, anti-racism, queer struggles, cultural defense and community development can be viewed as efforts to democratize civil society. The particulars are open and underdetermined but the "utopian" vision is one of the expansion of new modes of cooperation in and the integration of what we now isolate as production, regulation and relationships. (obviously, this is too succinct...)