This collection of essays recommend Ernst Bloch's work as a challenge to older models of historical materials and utopian emancipation, and give specific examples of how that work can contribute to current debates about, for example, utopia, nationalism and collective memory.
The essays gathered here recommend the work of Ernest Bloch as a challenge to older models of historical materialism and utopian emancipation and give specific examples of how Bloch's work can contribute to current debates about utopia, nationalism, collective memory, and the complex relationship between ideology and everyday life.