translated by Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul KnightThe
Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It
is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound
exploration of the possible reality of utopia. Even as the world
has rejected the doctrine on which Bloch sought to base his utopia,
his work still challenges us to think more insightfully about our
own visions of a better world.The Principle of Hope is published in
three volumes: Volume 1 lays the foundations of the philosophy of
process and introduces the idea of the Not-Yet-Conscious - the
anticipatory element that Bloch sees as central to human thought.
It also contains a remarkable account of the aesthetic
interpretations of utopian "wishful images" in fairy tales, popular
fiction, travel, theater, dance, and the cinema.Volume 2 presents
"the outlines of a better world." It examines the utopian systems
that progressive thinkers have developed in the fields of medicine,
painting, opera, poetry, and ultimately, philosophy. It is nothing
less than an encyclopedic account of utopian thought from the
Greeks to the present.Volume 3 offers a prescription for ways in
which humans can reach their proper "homeland," where social
justice is coupled with an openness to change and to the
future.
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