- Title
- Homeland and Marxism: Ernst Bloch's dialectics of utopia
- Creator
- Li, Yazhi
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- This thesis seeks to rediscover some key dialectical thoughts of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch for a critical rethinking of Marxism. The study is mainly motivated by three questions: (1) whether Bloch is blind towards historical failures and evils to the extent that his philosophy represents a sort of naïve optimism about the nature of human beings and the future of society; (2) whether Bloch’s utopianism relies on the romanticism of the subject’s imagination and disregards the objective tendencies in the world; and (3) how Bloch reassesses ideology and uses it to reinterpret Marxist thinking in return. Through investigating the dialectical tendencies in Bloch’s ontology of Not-Yet, this thesis argues for Bloch’s resistance to naïve optimism, subjectivism and the banal criticism of ideology by vulgar Marxism.
- Subject
- Ernst Bloch; utopia; Marxism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1343101
- Identifier
- uon:29093
- Rights
- Copyright 2017 Yazhi Li
- Language
- eng
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