The utopian function of art and literature : selected essays /

The aesthetic essays of the philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) belong to the rich tradition of cultural criticism represented by Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin. Bloch was a significant creative source for these thinkers, and his impact is nowhere more evident than in writings on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bloch, Ernst, 1885-1977
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1988.
Colección:Studies in contemporary German social thought.
Temas:
Aesthetics.
Utopias.
Literature > Aesthetics.
Utopias
Utopies.
utopian literature.
utopias.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
Aesthetics
Marxist criticism.
Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century.
Art and society.
Utopian fiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Notes on the translation and acknowledgments
  • Introduction toward a realization of anticipatory illumination / Jack Zipes
  • Something's missing : a discussion between Ernst Block and Theodor W. Adorno on the contradictions of utopian longing (1964)
  • [pt. 1]. Art and society
  • Ideas as transformed material in human minds, or problems of an ideological superstructure (Cultural heritage) (1972)
  • The wish-landscape perspective in aesthetics : the order of art materials according to the dimension of their profundity and hope (1959)
  • [pt. 2]. Art and Utopia
  • - The creation of the ornament (1973)
  • The conscious and known activity within the not-yet-conscious, the utopian function (1959)
  • The artistic illusion as the visible anticipatory illumination (1959)
  • Marxism and poetry (1935)
  • The fairy tale moves on its own in time (1930)
  • Better castles in the sky at the country fair and circus, in fairy tales and colportage (1959)
  • Building in empty spaces (1959)
  • On fine arts in the machine age (1964)
  • On the present in literature
  • The stage regarded as a paradigmatic institution and the decision within it (1959)
  • A philosophical view of the detective novel (1965)
  • A philosophical view of the novel of the artist (1965)
  • The representation of wish-landscapes in painting, opera, and poetry (1959)
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index of names and works.

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