"The 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 h
Alternate version of this book.‘It is not right that everyone should read the pages which follow; only a few will be able to savour this bitter fruit with impunity.’So wrote the self-styled Comte de Lautréamont (1846–70) at the beginning of this se
