The Principle of Hope

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This is the third volume of a three-volume text on the critical history of the utopian vision and an 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. This book 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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"Ernst Bloch's Principle of Hope is one of the key books of ourcentury. Part philosophic speculation, part political treatise, part lyricvision, it is exercising a deepening influence on thought and on literature... No political or theological appropriations of Bloch's leviathan can exhaustits visionary breadth." George Steiner