Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory

Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory

Rismal, Nina

Haymarket Books

08/2024

180

Mole

9798888902196

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements

Note on Translations


Introduction

?1?The Blow to Utopia from the Left

?2?The Road Not Taken

?3?(Political) Utopian Thinking

?4?Critical Theory

?5?A New Perspective on Contemporary Critical Theory


1 Marx's Two Utopian Paradoxes

?1?The Deployment of the Label 'Utopian' and Its Consequences

?2?Marx's Vision of the Communist Society

?3?Utopia Cannot Be Envisaged

?4?Imaginary vs. Rational Ideas

?5?Utopian Visions Are Insignificant


2 The Origins of Adorno's Utopieverbot

?1?Adorno and Marxist Theory in the Early Twentieth Century

?2?What Is the Utopieverbot?

?3?From the Bilderverbot to the Utopieverbot

?4?Marx's Influence on the Utopieverbot

?5?The Removal of Utopia into the Messianic Future

?6?Culture Industry and Utopian Consciousness

?7?The Problem with Identity Thinking


3 Negative Utopia?

?1?Positive Utopia - a Point of Departure for Negative Thinking

?2?Does Determinate Negation Make Sense?

?3?The Emergence of the Positive in Constellations

?4?Something Is Missing


4 Bloch's Rejection of the Utopieverbot

?1?Bloch's Life and Times

?2?Utopia as the 'Not-Yet'

?3?The Warm and Cold Streams of Marxism

?4?Bloch's Utopian Society: 'Heimat'

?5?The Utopian Core: 'Invariant of Direction'

?6?Traces Experiences and Expressions of Utopia

?7?Concrete Utopian Thinking


5 An Ontology of Processual Utopia

?1?The Prefigurations of Utopia in the 'Not-Yet-Conscious'

?2?Incompleteness of the World as the 'Not-Yet-Become'

?3?The Necessity of Utopian Thinking

?4?Processual Utopia and Processual Utopian Thinking


Conclusion


Bibliography

Index
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The Culture Industry; Marxism; Marx; Adorno; Ernst Bloch; Utopia; Critical Theory; Utopian Socialism