Jose Esteban Munoz, Cruising Utopia excerpt/Ernst Bloch, “Can Hope Be Disappointed?”
“Hope knows-by its own definition, so to speak-not only that danger implies salvation, but wherever salvation exists, danger increases. Hope knows too, that defeat pervades the world as a function of nothingness; and that futility is latent in objective real possibility, which carries both redemption and perdition, unreconciled with itself” (Bloch 189)
Themes 1 and 2: In addressing both themes of identity and internal shame, Bloch delves into how one can overcome their adversities and achieve a sense of hope through an affective way. In just conforming, losing a sense of identity, or feeling a sense of internal contempt, an individual is in a way letting “defeat pervade” and inhibits a notion of finality and justice.
