The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays

Contents......Page 3
Introduction:
Toward a Realization of Anticipatory Illumination......Page 4
I......Page 5
II......Page 13
Ill......Page 15
Notes......Page 21
Something’s Missing:
A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing......Page 23
Notes......Page 32
Marxist Interpretation and the Expansion of Economic Material......Page 33
Transitions between Economy and Ideology: The Problem Concerning the Production of Culture......Page 37
Genius and Ideological Surplus......Page 43
Ideological Surplus in the Superstructure and the Genuinely Made Cultural Heritage......Page 47
Three Stages, Also Three Types in the Surplus without Ideology (Factors That Make for Heritage in the Rise, Flourishing, and Decline of Epochs)......Page 51
Coda: The Problem of the Heritage That Is Still Partially Indelible and Based on Earlier Images of Nature That Are Still Transmitted Mythologically......Page 55
The Wish-Landscape Perspective in Aesthetics......Page 63
Technological Coldness......Page 67
Functional Form and Expressive Exuberance......Page 68
The Background of the Will to Art......Page 71
Greek Is Pleasing......Page 72
The Egyptian Will to Become like Stone......Page 73
The Will to Become Gothic like Resurrection......Page 74
The Picture of the Innermost Form......Page 77
Our Secret Creative Signature......Page 79
The Conscious and Known Activity within the Not-Yet-Conscious, the Utopian Function......Page 81
The Utopian Function Continued: Its Inner Subject and the Countermove against the Bad Existence......Page 83
The Connection of the Utopian Function with Interests......Page 85
The Encounter of the Utopian Function with Ideology......Page 87
The Encounter of the Utopian Function with the Archetypes......Page 90
The Encounter of the Utopian Function with Ideals......Page 94
The Encounter of the Utopian Function with the Allegories and Symbols......Page 100
The Artistic Illusion as the Visible Anticipatory Illumination......Page 103
The False Autarky; the Anticipatory Illumination as Real Fragment......Page 106
The Matter Concerns Realism, All That Is Real Has a Horizon......Page 109
Marxism and Poetry......Page 111
The Fairy Tale Moves on Its Own in Time......Page 115
Better Castles in the Sky at the Country Fair and Circus, in Fairy Tales and Colportage......Page 117
The Courage of the Clever Heroes......Page 118
The Magic Table, the Genie of the Lamp......Page 119
The South Seas at the Fair and Circus......Page 123
The Wild Fairy Tale as Colportage......Page 126
Building in Empty Spaces
New Houses and Real Clarity......Page 128
City Planning, Ideal Cities, and Again Real Clarity:
The Penetration of the Crystal with Fullness......Page 130
On Fine Arts in the Machine Age......Page 136
A Shadow Due to Lack of Distance......Page 140
Listen to the Actual Pulse......Page 141
The Specific Now at Different Times......Page 144
Again, Literature in the Now-Time Today......Page 146
Rehearsal for the Example......Page 150
More about the Rehearsal for the Example to Be Sought......Page 152
Reading, the Mimicking of Language, and the Scene......Page 153
Illusion, Honest Appearance, Moral Institution......Page 156
The False and the Real Actualization......Page 158
More Genuine Actualization: Not Fear and Pity, but Rather Defiance and Hope......Page 159
A Philosophical View of the Detective Novel......Page 162
A Philosophical View of the Novel of the Artist......Page 172
Flower and Carpet......Page 179
Departure for Cythera......Page 180
Perspective and Great Horizon in Van Eyck, Leonardo, and Rembrandt......Page 182
Still Life, Cythera, and the Broad Perspective in Literature: Heinse, the Romance of the Rose, Jean Paul......Page 184
Primary Sources......Page 188
Secondary Sources......Page 189