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Ernst Bloch

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born

July 08, 1885

died

August 04, 1977

gender

male

genre

Philosophy, Politics

influences

Marx, Hegel

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Bloch's work in philosophy 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. Bloch's work became very influential in the course of the student protest movements in 1968 and in liberation theology.

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Books by Ernst Bloch

Average rating: 4.05 · 520 ratings · 27 reviews · 26 distinct works

	The Principle of Hope by Ernst Bloch, Paul Knight (Translator), Neville Plaice (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1985 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Aesthetics and Politics by Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht 4.05 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Spirit of Utopia (Meridian by Ernst Bloch, Anthony A. Nassar (Translator), Anthony Nassar (Translation) 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1918 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Traces by Ernst Bloch, Anthony A. Nassar (Translator), Anthony Nassar (Translation) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1959 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays by Ernst Bloch, Jack Zipes (Translator), Frank Mecklenburg (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Atheism in Christianity: The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom by Ernst Bloch, Terry Eagleton (Introduction) 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1968 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Natural Law and Human Dignity 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Essays on the Philosophy of Music by Ernst Bloch, Peter Palmer (Translator), David Drew (Introduction) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1974 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Literary Essays by Ernst Bloch, Andrew Joron 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Thomas Muntzer Teologo della rivoluzione 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Ernst Bloch

“Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors.”
― Ernst Bloch

tags: born-again , christianity , fundementalism , marx , religion

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“Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. [...] The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.”
― Ernst Bloch