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Pessimism, Hope and Real Utopias

Imagining Better Worlds? Pessimism, Hope and Real Utopias I have recently been reading two books with hugely different claims. One is by by the arch conservative philosopher Roger Scruton; the other by a long dead and much admired Marxist, Ernst Bloch. The conservative is arguing for The Uses of Pessimism – the importance of pessimism…

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