Revolutionizing Time
Bloch's Challenge to Marx in Spirit of Utopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John-Patrick Schultz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 2017 |
| Issue | 179 |
| Pages | 179-187 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0617179179 |
| OpenAlex | W2624819175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia contains the beginnings of a fundamental reimagining of and challenge to Marx's thought. In Bloch's reading of Capital, the commodity fetish becomes the embodiment of an oppressive capitalist time that presupposes an incomplete primitive accumulation, that is, the survival of potentially disruptive precapitalist elements. Spirit of Utopia suggests that redeployments of such elements could serve to fatally disrupt capital's time, and so it appropriates and transforms the conception of revolution as an act of historical memory that Marx critiques in The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. On this basis, Bloch's text ultimately rejects Marx's understanding
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Capital (architecture · Commodity · Economics · Epistemology · Literature · Market economy · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Utopia · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |