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- Title
Topos Beyond Topia: Exploring the Lines of (Im)Possibility of a Marxist-Messianic Conception.
- Authors
CHAKRABORTY, AYAN
- Abstract
In this paper, I propose to understand the meaning of Utopia in the Marxist paradigm with respect to the Frankfurt School. To narrow down the scope of my paper, I would limit my research to the kind of 'Utopia' that Adorno and Horkheimer attempts to delineate to counter the meta-narrativity of the Kantian school of Enlightenment. With historicism and historical materialism being two tools of a binary revision of all historical processes, the understanding of a future world of Utopia is diluted into ineffability and a 'space' for non-imagination (or that we may call as belonging somewhere beyond our imaginative capability like the Kantian sublime). This space is the same that Benjamin reads as those imaginative breaking points of cyclical history which makes messianic advent possible; these lines are already existing but yet to manifest themselves. This unpredictability of advent of the messiah and hence, the unthinkable Utopia that the messiah might bring synchronises with the hypotheses of the Frankfurt school. My paper shall attempt to delve deeper into the Marxist understanding of Utopia along with the Judaic worldview of history and the coming of the messianic figure to interpret and re-read what could be a Marxist-messianic possibility.
- Subjects
HISTORICAL materialism; HISTORICISM; MESSIANISM; FRANKFURT school of sociology; SYNCHRONIZATION
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 4, p38
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article