Ernst Bloch
German philosopher (1885–1977)
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German Marxist philosopher who built his entire intellectual project around the idea that history is heading somewhere better. Bloch ran in circles with Lukács, Brecht, and Benjamin, mixing apocalyptic theology with materialist hope.
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Ernst Simon Bloch 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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