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L'objet de cette biographie philosophique et politique consacrée à Ernst Bloch, est de reconstruire la genèse de cette pensée du "rêver-en-avant", de l'espérance et de l'utopie concrète qui se développe en symbiose avec le matérialisme historique. Cet ouvrage procède d'une façon strictement chronologique et retrace le chemin intellectuel, philosophique et politique du philosophe. A la lumière d'archives qui ont permis la consultation de documents et de lettres encore inconnus du public, la biographie accorde une attention particulière au cheminement intellectuel de l'auteur de L'Esprit de l'Utopie, à partir de la République de Weimar, de son exil en France en 1935 (aux côtés de W. Benjamin et de S. Kracauer), à la période difficile de son exil aux Etats-Unis (de 1938 à 1949) ainsi qu'à sa vie et ses activités en tant que professeur et directeur de l'institut de Philosophie de l'université de Leipzig (ex-R.D.A.) de 1949 à 1961. Ces activités transformeront le philosophe de l'utopie progressivement en un dissident qui s'attire, à la suite de la répression sanglante de l'insurrection hongroise (en 1956) les foudres et la persécution du régime bureaucratique et stalinien de Berlin-Est, dans le sillage de l'affaire Harich... Ce livre reconstitue dans l'ordre strictement chronologique le processus de genèse de cette vision nouvelle du monde matérialiste qu'exprime par excellence Le Principe Espérance, mettant en évidence la contribution originelle de Bloch au néo-marxisme du XXe siècle qui consiste non seulement dans le fait d'avoir dressé un inventaire complet des "images-souhait" utopiques dans toutes les formes de la production culturelle (architecture, peinture, littérature, philosophie, musique...), mais d'avoir aussi inscrit d'une façon spectaculaire les figures de la "conscience anticipante" dans le matérialisme historique. Ernst Bloch, qui était au même titre qu'Antonio Gramsci "l'hérétique le plus productif au sein de l'histoire du marxisme" (O. Negt), a - plus qu'aucun autre penseur contemporain défié radicalement, avec ses écrits, le nihilisme, le dogmatisme et les effets désastreux de la "pensée unique".

Philosophers --- Utopias --- Bloch, Ernst, --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Political science --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- Bloch, Ernst --- Philosophes --- Biography --- Biographies --- Philosophers - Germany - Biography --- Bloch, Ernst, - 1885-1977 --- Bloch, Ernst (1885-1977) --- Utopies --- Philosophie --- 20e siècle

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An international ensemble of folklore scholars looks at varied ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively used imagined states of existence-some idealizations, some demonizations-in the construction of identities for themselves and for others. Drawing on oral traditions, especially as represented in traditional ballads, broadsides, and tale collections, the contributors consider fertile landscapes of the mind where utopias overflow with bliss and abundance, stereotyped national and ethnic caricatures define the lives of "others," nostalgia glorifies home and occupation, and idealized and mythological animals serve as cultural icons and guideposts to harmonious social life.Italian Canadian Luisa Del Giudice looks at the rich Italian variants of the traditional gastronomic utopia called Il Paese di Cuccagna, the Land of Cockaigne, "a mythic land of plenty where rivers run with 'milk and honey' (wine, beer, coffee, or rum), food falls like manna from heaven, work is banished, and no one ever grows old" and considers its persistence in immigrant worldview. From New Delhi, Sadhana Naithani examines the "preface-d space" that as India, colonial British authors imagined and passed on to readers in formulaic prefaces to collections of Indian folklore. Reimund Kvideland, of Norway, and Gerald Porter, an English scholar teaching in Finland, show how nineteenth-century Norwegian and English railway navvies (itinerant laborers) idealized their low-status occupations in song. In a second essay, Gerald Porter demonstrates through broadside ballad texts the role of caricatures of the Welsh, Scottish, and Irish in constructing "Englishness." Turks were among the "others" Germans demonized, as Tom Cheesman, who teaches in Wales, explains in his paper on their historical representations in German street ballads. Cozette Griffin-Kremer of France paints a sweeping picture of the landscape of the mind that written and popular traditions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales built around bovine bodies, the human-cow partnership, and the mysteries of domestication, thereby providing conceptions of transcendence of the human condition. Finally, Vaira Freibergs, a scholar and the current president of Latvia, explains the images of longing for idealized childhood homes that married women, exiled by a patrilocal culture, expressed in Latvian folksong.

Oral tradition. --- Utopias. --- Imaginary places. --- Ethnicity. --- Nationalism. --- Nostalgia. --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- Ethnic identity --- Cities, Imaginary --- Fictitious places --- Imaginary cities --- Imaginary islands --- Islands, Imaginary --- Places, Imaginary --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Tradition, Oral --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history

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