Ernst Blochs Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Moir+-

Ernst Bloch's Speculative MaterialismOntology, Epistemology, Politics\nAuthor(s): Cat Moir\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Haymarket Books, United States\nImprint: Haymarket Books\nISBN-13: 9781642593495, 978-1642593495\nSynopsis\nIn this important new approach to his philosophy and politics, Cat Moir sets out to offer a fresh interpretation of Ernst Bloch's work. The reception of Bloch's work has seen him variously painted as a nave realist, a romantic nature philosopher, a totalitarian thinker, and an irrationalist whose obscure literary style stands in for a lack of systematic rigour. Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism challenges these conceptions of Bloch by reconstructing the ontological, epistemological, and political dimensions of his speculative materialism. Through a close, historically contextualised reading of Bloch's major work of ontology, Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz (The Materialism Problem, its History and Substance), Moir presents Bloch a.