The utopian power of Ernst Bloch's political messianism

Abstract

This article analyzes the elements present in “Philosophy of Hope” by Ernst Bloch from essential issues: the
vestiges of utopia, the possible future, utopian concretions and political messianism as an open-ended process. These utopian contours of Bloch’s thought are the ones that, in a comprehensive sense of the existence of being, set a relevant short synthesis - “S is not yet fully P”. In this sense, the non-uprising and the unfolding of the human in its entirety remain in an expectant process whose task is to consider that this possibility of the not yet realized underlies the transforming action of the messianic politics.