Ernst Bloch
Ernst Bloch | |
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Bloch in 1954 | |
| Born | July 8, 1885 |
| Died | August 4, 1977 (aged 92) Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Munich University of Würzburg (PhD, 1908) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Western Marxism Marxist hermeneutics |
| Institutions | Leipzig University University of Tübingen |
| Main interests | Humanism, philosophy of history, nature, subjectivity, ideology, utopia, religion, theology |
| Notable ideas | The principle of hope, non-simultaneity |
Ernst Simon Bloch (/blɒk/; German: [ɛʁnst ˈblɔx]; July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977; pseudonyms: Karl Jahraus, Jakob Knerz) was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers such as Thomas Müntzer, Paracelsus, and Jacob Böhme. He established friendships with György Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno. Bloch's work focuses on an optimistic teleology of the history of mankind.