Philosopher
Ernst Bloch
Overview
Ernst Simon Bloch (; German: [ɛʁnst ˈblɔx]; 8 July 1885 – 4 August 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 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.
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Philosophers who discussed Ernst Bloch
- Gershom Scholem
- Walter Benjamin
- Ludwig Klages
- Theodor W. Adorno
- György Lukács
- Bruno Bauer
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Milan Machovec
- Robert S. Corrington
Ideas Ernst Bloch discusses
- Avicenna
- Heinrich Rickert
- Stanford University Press
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- German Empire
- East Germany
- Western philosophy
- Paracelsus
- Karl Marx
- Philosophy of history
- Marxism
- Nature
- Ontology
- Intellectual
- Walter Benjamin
- Bertolt Brecht
- Religion
- Jews
- University of Tübingen
- Tübingen
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Theology
- Nazism
- Utopia
Place in the tradition
Part of German philosophy.