The privatization of hope: Ernst Bloch and the future of Utopia

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8 Bloch and a philosophy of the proterior / by Wayne Hudson -- An anti-humanist Utopia? / by Vincent Geoghegan -- Ernst Bloch's dialectical anthropology / by Johan Siebers -- Religion, Utopia, and the metaphysics of contingency / by Peter Thompson -- The privatization of eschatology and myth : Ernst Bloch vs. Rudolph Bultmann / by Roland Boer -- The education of hope : on the dialectical potential of speculative materialism / by Catherine Moir -- Engendering the future : Bloch's utopian philosophy in dialogue with gender theory / by CaitriÌ ona NiÌ DhuÌ ill -- The zero-point : encountering the dark emptiness of nothingness / by Frances Daly -- A Marxist poetics : allegory and reading in The Principle of Hope / by David Miller -- Singing summons the existence of the fountain : Bloch, music, and Utopia / by Ruth Levitas -- Transforming utopian into metopian systems : Bloch's principle of hope revisited / by Rainer E. Zimmermann -- Unlearning how to hope : eleven theses in defense of liberal democracy and consumer culture / by Henk de Berg -- Can we hope to walk tall in a computerized world of work? / by Francesca Vidal and Welf Schröter