In his timely Heathwood article on the the dialectic of utopia, Michael Ott stresses the importance of Ernst Bloch’s and T.W. Adorno’s 1964 discussion of utopian thought.[1] I follow Ott in relating my observations to this exchange. Read more…
Author’s note: What follows is a revised version of a talk given to the Morningside Justice and Peace Group (morningsidejandpgroup.org), Edinburgh, on 14 October 2015. The revised version comments on issues which, for reasons of time, my talk does not address. A further note regarding my “revised version” is in order: evidently, a talk does not have footnotes. But -whilst retaining a “spoken” format – I add (some) footnotes here. Read more…