The Spirit of Utopia
Stanford University Press (2000)
| Abstract | Bloch's The Spirit of Utopia, here presented for the first time in English translation, is one of the great historic books from the beginning of the twentieth-century. A peculiar amalgam of biblical, Marxist, and Expressionist turns, drawing on both Hegel and Schopenhauer for the groundwork of its metaphysics of music, but consistently interpreting the cultural legacy in the light of a certain Marxism, The Spirit of Utopia is a unique attempt to rethink the history of Western civilizations as a process of revolutionary disruptions and to reread the artworks, religions, and philosophies of this tradition as incentives to continue disrupting. The first part concerns a mode of 'self-encounter' which presents itself in the history of music from Mozart through Mahler as an encounter with the problem of a community to come. The second part is entitled 'Karl Marx, Death and the Apocalypse'. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Philosophy Music Philosophy and aesthetics | |||||||||
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| Call number | B3209.B753.G4213 2000 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780804737647 0804737649 0804737657 | |||||||||
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