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In developing his account of the process Bloch employs traditional categories in new or unexpected meanings; he also invents new ‘categories’ and neologisms. Some of the most important of these will now be discussed.
The history of the world is itself an experiment, a real experiment in the world aiming at a possible right world. Such history therefore should be understood as a self operative test, as a real test, in countless objective-real models for a still lacking example. For an omega example as was always intended in the philosophical concept of true being (ontōs on, substance, full identity of appearance and essence).
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See, for example, R. Bultmann, History and Eschatology. The Gifford Lectures, 1955 (Edinburgh: The University Press, 1957)
C. H. Dodd, History and the Gospel (London: Nisbet, 1938)
and A. Richardson, History Sacred and Profane (London: S.C.M. Press, 1964).
Subjekt-Objekt, GA, vol. 8, ch. 25. See also the translation, Ernst Bloch, ‘Dialectics and Hope’, trans. M. Ritter, in New German Critique, no. 9, Fall, (1976) pp. 3–10.
For treatments of possibility by analytical philosophers, see N. Rescher, Conceptual Idealism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973) chs II and III;
J. Hintikka, Time and Necessity. Studies in Aristotle’s Theory of Modality (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973). Like Bloch, Hintikka recognises the problem of a categorial representation of ‘becoming possible’.
For Meinong’s theory of incompletely determined objects, see J. W. Findlay, Meinong’s Theory of Objects (London: Oxford University Press, 1933).
K. Marx, Capital, vol I (1867) trans. S. Moore and E. Aveling (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1970) p. 178, and Das Prinzip Ho ffnung, GA, vol. 5, pp. 84–5.
See G. Lukacs, Marx’s Basic Ontological Principles, trans. D. Fernbach (London: Merlin Press, 1978).
B. Schmidt, ‘Vom teleologischen Prinzip in der Materie’, in Ernst Blochs Wirkung (Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1975) pp. 362–80.
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S. Schram (ed. and intro.) Mao Tse-tung Unrehearsed, trans. J. Chinnery and Tieyun (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974) pp. 220–1, 228.
See F. Engels, Schelling on Hegel (1841)
F. Engels, Schelling and Revelation (1842)
F. Engels, and Schelling, Philosopher in Christ (1842)
F. Engels, trans. B. Ruhemann, in Marx-Engels, Collected Works (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1975) var. trans., vol. II, pp. 181–7, 191–240, 243–64, especially pp. 186, 206–7, 220–1.
For a detailed treatment of this aspect of Transcendental Thomism, see O. Muck S. J., The Transcendental Method, trans. W. D. Seidensticker (New York: Herder and Herder, 1968) especially pts I and III.
For Rahner’s theological anthropology, see L. Roberts, The Achievement of Karl Rahner (New York: Herder and Herder, 1967) especially chs 1 and 5.
See M. Blondel, L’Action (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1893);
H. Duméry, Raison et Religion dans la Philosophie de l’action (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1963) pt III;
J. J. McNeill, The Blondelian Synthesis (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1966) chs IV, V, VII, XII, X III.
See E. Wyschogrod, Emmanuel Levinas. The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics (The Hague, Nijhoff, 1974)
E. Wyschogrod, Levinas’ contribution to G. Raulet (ed.), Utopie - Marxisme Selon Ernst Bloch (Paris: Payot, 1976) ‘Sur la mort dans la pensée de Ernst Bloch’, pp. 318–26.
Bloch was friendly with Broch in the United States, and may have influenced his philosophical views. See E. Schlant, Die Philosophie Hermann Brochs (Bern/Munich: Francke Verlag, 1971).
See, for example, K. Jaspers, Philosophical Faith and Revelation, trans. E. B. Ashton (London: Collins, 1967) pp. 169–86.
W. J. Richardson, S.J., Heidegger Through Phenomenology to Thought, 3rd ed. (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974)
and O. Pöggeler, Der Denkweg Martin Heideggers (Pfullingen: Neske, 1963) chs VII and VIII.
See E. Klum, Natur, Kunst und Liebe in der Philosophie Vladimir Solov’evs (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1965);
L. Müller, Das religionsphilosophische System Vladimir Solovjevs (Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1956);
and S. L. Frank (arr.) A Solovyov Anthology, trans. N. Duddington (London: S.C.M. Press, 1950).
See D. B. Richardson, Berdyaev’s Philosophy of History (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968) especially pp. 66–86, and C. S. Calian, Berdyaev’s Philosophy of Hope, op. cit., especially pp. 9–41, 57–121.
For the process philosophy aspect of Teilhard’s views, see D.P. Gray, The One and the Many, Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision of Unity (London: Burns and Oates, 1969);
and, more generally, Émile Rideau, La pensée du Père Teilhard de Chardin (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1965).
Cf. for Bergson, M. t apek, The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics, op. cit.; for a useful analysis of the process philosophy of José Vasconcelos, see P. Romanell, The Making of the Mexican Mind (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967) ch. 4;
S. Alexander, Space, Time and Deity 2 vols (London: Macmillan, 1920).
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Hudson, W. (1982). Open System: Marxist Metaphysics II. In: The Marxist Philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04290-6_4
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