radical disappointment
28 Feb 2026 - 18 Mar 2026
- This phrase popped into my head, I'm kind of surprised there isn't much literature.
- A Dash of Pessimism? Ernst Bloch, Radical Disappointment and the Militant Excavation of Hope
Bloch’s ontologisation of hope, that it is grounded in the very matter of the world as such, would seem to make despair, pessimism and disappointment impossible phenomena; if the world is always directed towards the not-yet become, then hope is a viable disposition even in the grimmest moments of history.
