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The utopian function of art and literature ;selected essays / Ernst Bloch ; translated by Jack Zipes and Frank Mecklenburg.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Studies in contemporary German social thoughtPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1988.Description: xliii, 310 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0262022702
  • 9780262022705
  • 0262521393
  • 9780262521390
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BH 39 B651u 1988
Contents:
Notes on the translation and acknowledgments -- Introduction: toward a realization of anticipatory illumination / Jack Zipes -- Something's missing : a discussion between Ernst Block and Theodor W. Adorno on the contradictions of utopian longing (1964) -- [pt. 1]. Art and society -- Ideas as transformed material in human minds, or problems of an ideological superstructure (Cultural heritage) (1972) -- The wish-landscape perspective in aesthetics : the order of art materials according to the dimension of their profundity and hope (1959) -- [pt. 2]. Art and Utopia --- The creation of the ornament (1973) -- The conscious and known activity within the not-yet-conscious, the utopian function (1959) -- The artistic illusion as the visible anticipatory illumination (1959) -- Marxism and poetry (1935) -- The fairy tale moves on its own in time (1930) -- Better castles in the sky at the country fair and circus, in fairy tales and colportage (1959) -- Building in empty spaces (1959) -- On fine arts in the machine age (1964) -- On the present in literature -- The stage regarded as a paradigmatic institution and the decision within it (1959) -- A philosophical view of the detective novel (1965) -- A philosophical view of the novel of the artist (1965) -- The representation of wish-landscapes in painting, opera, and poetry (1959) -- Selected bibliography -- Index of names and works.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) BH 39 B651u 1988 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000081574

The first essay, Something's missing, was originally published in German in Gesprèache mit Ernst Bloch; the other essays are from Bloch's èAsthetik des Vor-Scheins.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-303) and index.

Notes on the translation and acknowledgments -- Introduction: toward a realization of anticipatory illumination / Jack Zipes -- Something's missing : a discussion between Ernst Block and Theodor W. Adorno on the contradictions of utopian longing (1964) -- [pt. 1]. Art and society -- Ideas as transformed material in human minds, or problems of an ideological superstructure (Cultural heritage) (1972) -- The wish-landscape perspective in aesthetics : the order of art materials according to the dimension of their profundity and hope (1959) -- [pt. 2]. Art and Utopia --- The creation of the ornament (1973) -- The conscious and known activity within the not-yet-conscious, the utopian function (1959) -- The artistic illusion as the visible anticipatory illumination (1959) -- Marxism and poetry (1935) -- The fairy tale moves on its own in time (1930) -- Better castles in the sky at the country fair and circus, in fairy tales and colportage (1959) -- Building in empty spaces (1959) -- On fine arts in the machine age (1964) -- On the present in literature -- The stage regarded as a paradigmatic institution and the decision within it (1959) -- A philosophical view of the detective novel (1965) -- A philosophical view of the novel of the artist (1965) -- The representation of wish-landscapes in painting, opera, and poetry (1959) -- Selected bibliography -- Index of names and works.

Translated from German.

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