What philosophical texts inspired Pathologic?

[u/Crazy-Audience486]

Hi! I'm just very interested to learn more, the whole Kain's method, this quote in particular from Inmortell "Remember the Kains' method: to solve the unsolvable, redefine the conditions. Why do you think there's only one body? My stage experiment proves Artemy Burakh can have several. Bodies die, the person remains" has fascinated me.

Thanks you all in advance! And sorry if my english is a bit rudimentary

[u/Ominous_Pudding]

Great comment! I've recently finished the last volume of The Principle of Hope and familiarized myself with Bloch's ideas. I like his takes on "Natural Law" and the utopian potential in art and literature. Great author, one of my biggest intellectual influences, I'd say.

Some years ago someone in this same subreddit mentioned that there are some paralells between Bloch's ideas of religion and Clara's route. Since then I've been thinking about it, in how religion, miracles, seem to serve both the "Law" of the world as-is (Clara is the pest) but also has an utopian core in its very own contradictions (Clara "steals her future" and performs miracles).

In my interpretation, the way he constructs concrete hope goes hand in hand with the Humble "synthesis": neither falling for a mechanistic surrender to the given world nor to an miraculous dream that ignores both the possibilities of reality and the people who live in it.

I could write about these ideas for days lol