"The Principle of Hope"

…He studied philosophy, physics, and music, became acquainted with Simmel and Weber, and was friends with Lukacs and Benjamin. He also resonated with Expressionism. He was interested in the relationship between the manifestation of the power of living organisms and “objective fantasy.” At a young age, he became aware of a philosophy that unifies the “unconsciousness” of the subject and the “non-existence” of the object. This conviction is consistent throughout his manifesto The Spirit of Utopia (1918), Elements The Principle of Hope (1959), and Theory of Practice The World Experiment (1975). His ideological distinctiveness lies in his linking the intrinsic hope of human beings to a Marxist view of history through Aristotle’s concept of dunamis, and his use of this principle to unify reality as a dialectical process in which the incomplete subject and object aim for the ultimate self-realization of identity. …

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…哲学，物理学，音楽を専攻，ジンメルとウェーバーの知己を得，ルカーチやベンヤミンと親交，また表現主義に共鳴した。生命体の力の発現と〈客観的ファンタジー〉の関連に関心をもち，若くして主体の〈未意識〉と客体の〈未存在〉を統一的にとらえる哲学を自覚，その確信は宣言の書《ユートピアの精神》(1918)，原論《希望の原理》(1959)，実践論《世界の実験》(1975)を一貫している。人間の内発的な希望を，アリストテレスのデュナミス概念を媒介にマルクス主義歴史観に結びつけ，それを原理に現実を未完の主体と客体が同一性という究極の自己実現をめざす弁証法的運動過程として一元的にとらえる点に思想的特色がある。…

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