Ernst Bloch
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Ernst Bloch (1954)
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| Born | July 8, 1885 Ludwigshafen, German Empire |
| Died | August 4, 1977 (aged 92) Tübingen, West Germany |
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University of Munich University of Würzburg (PhD, 1908) |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
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Western Marxism Marxist hermeneutics |
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Leipzig University University of Tübingen |
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Humanism, philosophy of history,nature, subjectivity, ideology, utopia, religion, theology |
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Notable ideas
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The principle of hope, non-simultaneity |
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Ernst Bloch (German: [ˈɛʁnst ˈblɔx]; July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977) 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 Boehme. He established friendships with György Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno. Bloch's work focuses on the thesis that in a humanistic world where oppression and exploitation have been eliminated there will always be a truly revolutionary force.
Bloch was born in Ludwigshafen, the son of a Jewish railway-employee. After studying philosophy, he married Else von Stritzky, daughter of a Baltic brewer in 1913, who died in 1921. His second marriage with Linda Oppenheimer lasted only a few years. His third wife was Karola Piotrowska, a Polish architect, whom he married in 1934 in Vienna. When the Nazis came to power, they had to flee, first into Switzerland, then to Austria, France, Czechoslovakia, and finally the United States. Bloch returned to the GDR in 1949 and obtained a chair in philosophy at Leipzig.
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