Jeffrey Paris [was Infinite Tasks]’s Reviews > The Principle of Hope: Three-volume set > Status Update

Really amazing stuff. Bloch was far more unconventional - as Marxist, as mystic, as cultural critic - than I had understood before. I am ready to set a religious historian or two on his tail, though. He was working with hermeneutics now 50+ years old, and the selectivity of his accounts (of pagan and Gnostic cults, of Islamic conceptions of an afteerlife) can be a bit concerning.

Volume One complete. As interesting theoretically as I had hoped, and considered readable and provocative by students in the course. So far, so good!