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Ernst Bloch — Marxist philosopher or modernist seer? Bloch is both. He is a thinker of the deep will in an age which thinks too quickly. Like Heidegger, Bloch invites criticism, much of it just; but he survives his critics because of the meditative power of his thinking, which strikes into areas which others barely touch. His final significance depends on the fecundity of his utopian imagination.
The true genesis comes not at the beginning but at the end.
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L. Koïakowski, Main Currents of Marxism, trans. P. S. Falla (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) vol. III, The Breakdown, ch. XII, ‘Ernst Bloch: Marxism As A Futuristic Gnosis’.
Cf. V. I. Lenin, ‘Marxism and Revisionism’ (1908), reprinted in Against Revisionism, in Defence of Marxism (Moscow: Progress Publishers 1970) pp. 34–43.
Cf. P. Anderson, Considerations on Western Marxism (London: New Left Books, 1976).
L. Marin ‘La pratique-fiction Utopie’, in G. Raulet (ed.), Utopie - Marxisme selon Ernst Bloch, op. cit. pp. 241–64; J-F. Lyotard, ‘Puissance des Traces ou Contribution de Bloch à une histoire païenne’ in ibid., pp. 57–67, and Discours, Figure (Paris: Éditions Klincksieck, 1971); G. Deleuze, Différence et répétition (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1968);
P. Boutang, Ontologie du Secret (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1973);
J. Derrida, Of Grammatology (1967), trans. G. C. Spivak (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976) and Writing and Difference (1967), trans. A. Bass (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978);
J. Kristeva, ‘Sémanalyse et production de sens’ in Essais de sémiotique poétique ed. A. J. Greimas (Paris: Larousse, 1971) pp. 207–34, and Semiotikè: Recherches pour une sémanalyse (Paris: Seuil, 1969).
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Hudson, W. (1982). Exodus. In: The Marxist Philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04290-6_6
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