Ernst Bloch  

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Ernst Bloch called America “a cul-de-sac lit by neon lights.” (Bloch Literarische Aufsätze 1965, 527)

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Ernst Simon Bloch (July 8, 1885August 4, 1977) was a German Marxist philosopher.

Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx. He was also interested in music (notably Gustav Mahler) and art (notably expressionism). He established friendships with Georg Lukacs, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W. Adorno. Bloch's work focuses on the concept that in a utopian human world where oppression and exploitation have been eliminated there will always be a truly ideological revolutionary force.

Bibliography

Books

  • Geist der Utopie (1918) (The Spirit of Utopia, Stanford, 2000)
  • Thomas Müntzer als Theologe der Revolution (1921) (Thomas Müntzer as Theologian of Revolution)
  • Spuren (1930) (Traces, Stanford University Press, 2006)
  • Erbschaft dieser Zeit (1935) (Heritage of Our Times, Polity, 1991)
  • Freiheit und Ordnung (1947) (Freedom and Order)
  • Subjekt-Objekt (1949)
  • Christian Thomasius (1949)
  • Avicenna und die aristotelische Linke (1949) (Avicenna and the aristotelian Left)
  • Das Prinzip Hoffnung (3 vols.: 1938–1947) (The Principle of Hope, MIT Press, 1986)
  • Naturrecht und menschliche Würde (1961) (Natural Law and Human Dignity, MIT Press 1986)
  • Tübinger Einleitung in die Philosophie (1963) (The Tübingen Introduction in Philosophy)
  • Religion im Erbe (1959–66) (trans.: Man on His Own, Herder and Herder, 1970)
  • On Karl Marx (1968) Herder and Herder, 1971.
  • Atheismus im Christentum (1968) (trans.: Atheism in Christianity, 1972)
  • Politische Messungen, Pestzeit, Vormärz (1970) (Political Measurements, the Plague, Pre-March)
  • Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz (1972) (The Problem of Materialism, Its History and Substance)
  • Experimentum Mundi. Frage, Kategorien des Herausbringens, Praxis (1975) (Experimentum Mundi. Question, Categories of Realization, Praxis)

Articles

  • “Causality and Finality as Active, Objectifying Categories:Categories of Transmission”. TELOS 21 (Fall 1974). New York:




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