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Ernst Bloch

January 01, 1970

This article is about the German philosopher. For the American composer, see Ernest Bloch. For the American spy in Germany, see Ernie Blake.

Ernst Simon Bloch (German: [ɛʁnst ˈblɔx]; July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977; pseudonyms: Karl Jahraus, Jakob Knerz[5]) 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.[6] 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.

Life edit

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, the couple had to flee, first into Switzerland, then to Austria, France, Czechoslovakia, and finally the United States. He lived briefly in New Hampshire before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was there, in the reading room of Harvard's Widener Library, that Bloch wrote the lengthy three-volume work The Principle of Hope. He originally planned to publish it there under the title Dreams of a Better Life.

In 1948, Bloch was offered the chair of philosophy at the University of Leipzig, and he returned to East Germany to take up the position. In 1955 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR. In addition, he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin (AdW). He had more or less become the political philosopher of the GDR. Among his many academic students from this period was his assistant Manfred Buhr, who earned his doctorate with him in 1957, and was later a professor in Greifswald, then director of the Central Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences (ADC) in Berlin and who became a critic of Bloch.[citation needed]

However, the Hungarian uprising in 1956 led Bloch to revise his view of the SED (Socialist Unity Party) regime, whilst retaining his Marxist orientation. Because he advocated humanistic ideas of freedom, he was obliged to retire in 1957 for political reasons – not because of his age, 72 years. A number of scientists and students spoke publicly against this forced retirement, among them the renowned professor and colleague Emil Fuchs and his students as well as Fuchs's grandson Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski.[citation needed]

When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, he did not return to the GDR, but went to Tübingen in West Germany, where he received an honorary chair in Philosophy. He died in Tübingen.[citation needed]

Thought edit

Bloch was a highly original and eccentric thinker. Much of his writing—in particular, his magnum opus The Principle of Hope—is written in a poetic, aphoristic style.[6] The Principle of Hope tries to provide an encyclopedic account of mankind's and nature's orientation towards a socially and technologically improved future. This orientation is part of Bloch's overarching philosophy. Bloch believed the universe is undergoing a transition from its primordial cause (Urgrund) toward its final goal (Endziel).[7] He believed this transition is effected through a subject-object dialectic, and he saw evidence for this process in all aspects of human history and culture.

Influence edit

 
Endlose Treppe by Max Bill, which is dedicated to the Principle of Hope by Bloch

Bloch's work became influential in the course of the student protest movements in 1968 and in liberation theology.[citation needed] It is cited as a key influence by Jürgen Moltmann in his Theology of Hope (1967, Harper and Row, New York), by Dorothee Sölle, and by Ernesto Balducci. Psychoanalyst Joel Kovel has praised Bloch as, "the greatest of modern utopian thinkers".[8] Robert S. Corrington has been influenced by Bloch, though he has tried to adapt Bloch's ideas to serve a liberal rather than a Marxist politics.[9] Bloch's concept of concrete utopias found in The Principle of Hope was used by José Esteban Muñoz to shift the field of performance studies. This shift allowed for the emergence of utopian performativity and a new wave of performance theorizing as Bloch's formulation of utopia shifted how scholars conceptualize the ontology and the staging of performances as imbued with an enduring indeterminacy,[10] as opposed to dominant performance theories found in the work of Peggy Phelan, who view performance as a life event without reproduction.

Bibliography edit

Books edit

  • Geist der Utopie (1918) (The Spirit of Utopia, Stanford, 2000)
  • Thomas Müntzer als Theologe der Revolution (1921) (Thomas Müntzer as Theologian of Revolution)
  • Spuren (1930) (Traces, Stanford University Press, 2006)
  • Erbschaft dieser Zeit (1935) (Heritage of Our Times, Polity, 1991)
  • Freiheit und Ordnung (1947) (Freedom and Order)
  • Subjekt-Objekt (1949)
  • Christian Thomasius (1949)
  • Avicenna und die aristotelische Linke (1949) (Avicenna and the aristotelian Left)
  • Das Prinzip Hoffnung (3 vols.: 1938–1947) (The Principle of Hope, MIT Press, 1986)
  • Naturrecht und menschliche Würde (1961) (Natural Law and Human Dignity, MIT Press 1986)
  • Tübinger Einleitung in die Philosophie (1963) (The Tübingen Introduction in Philosophy)
  • Religion im Erbe (1959–66) (trans.: Man on His Own, Herder and Herder, 1970)
  • On Karl Marx (1968) Herder and Herder, 1971.
  • Atheismus im Christentum (1968) (trans.: Atheism in Christianity, 1972)
  • Politische Messungen, Pestzeit, Vormärz (1970) (Political Measurements, the Plague, Pre-March)
  • Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz (1972) (The Problem of Materialism, Its History and Substance)
  • Experimentum Mundi. Frage, Kategorien des Herausbringens, Praxis (1975) (Experimentum Mundi. Question, Categories of Realization, Praxis)

Articles edit

  • “Causality and Finality as Active, Objectifying Categories: Categories of Transmission”. Telos 21 (Fall 1974). New York: Telos Press

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Amacher, Richard E.; Lange, Victor (2015). New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism: A Collection of Essays. Princeton University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-691-63084-7.
  2. ^ Erasmus: Speculum Scientarium, 25, p. 162: "the different versions of Marxist hermeneutics by the examples of Walter Benjamin's Origins of the German Tragedy [sic], ... and also by Ernst Bloch's Hope the Principle [sic]."
  3. ^ Kaufmann, David (1997). "Thanks for the Memory: Bloch, Benjamin and the Philosophy of History". In Daniel, Jamie Owen; Moylan, Tom (eds.). Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch. London and New York: Verson. p. 33. ISBN 0-86091-439-9.
  4. ^ His thesis title was Kritische Erörterungen über Rickert und das Problem der modernen Erkenntnistheorie [Critical discussions on Rickert and the problem of modern epistemology] (Thesis). OCLC 27568512.
  5. ^ . Archived from the original on 2019-11-21.
  6. ^ a b Kołakowski, Leszek (1985). Main Currents of Marxism Volume 3: The Breakdown. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 421–449. ISBN 0-19-285109-8.
  7. ^ Levy, Ze'ev (1990). "Utopia and Reality in the Philosophy of Ernst Bloch". Utopian Studies. 1 (2): 3–12. ISSN 1045-991X. JSTOR 20718997.
  8. ^ Kovel, Joel (1991). History and Spirit: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation. Boston: Beacon Press. p. 261. ISBN 0-8070-2916-5.
  9. ^ Corrington, Robert S. (1992). Nature and Spirit: An Essay in Ecstatic Naturalism. New York: Fordham University Press. p. 113. ISBN 0-8232-1363-3.
  10. ^ Muñoz, José Esteban (2009). Cruising Utopia : The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: New York University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-8147-5727-7.

Further reading edit

  • Werner Raupp: Ernst Bloch, in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), Vol. 14, Herzberg: Bautz 1998 (ISBN 3-88309-073-5), Col. 783–810 (with detailed bibliography).
  • Adorno, Theodor W. (1991). "Ernst Bloch's Spuren," Notes to Literature, Volume One, New York, Columbia University Press
  • Dietschy, Beat [in German]; Zeilinger, Doris; Zimmermann, Rainer, eds. (2012). Bloch-Wörterbuch: Leitbegriffe der Philosophie Ernst Blochs [Bloch Dictionary: principle concepts of the philosophy of Ernst Bloch] (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110256710. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  • Thompson, Peter and Slavoj Žižek (eds.) (2013) "The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia". Durham, NC: Duke University Press
  • Boldyrev, Ivan (2014), Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries: Locating Utopian Messianism. London and New York: Bloomsbury.
  • Geoghegan, Vincent (1996). Ernst Bloch, London, Routledge
  • Hudson, Wayne (1982). The Marxist philosophy of Ernst Bloch, New York, St. Martin's Press
  • Schmidt, Burghard. (1985) Ernst Bloch, Stuttgart, Metzler
  • Münster, Arno [de] (1989). Ernst Bloch: messianisme et utopie, PUF, Paris
  • Jones, John Miller (1995). Assembling (Post)modernism: The Utopian Philosophy of Ernst Bloch, New York, P Lang. (Studies in European thought, volume 11)
  • Korstvedt, Benjamin M. (2010). Listening for utopia in Ernst Bloch’s musical philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
  • West, Thomas H. (1991). Ultimate hope without God : the atheistic eschatology of Ernst Bloch, New York, P. Lang (American university studies series 7 Theology religion; volume 97)

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to Ernst Bloch.
  • "Ernst Bloch" entry by Ivan Boldyrev in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Illuminations: Ernst Bloch, Utopia and Ideology Critique By Douglas Kellner
  • Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
  • Ernst-Bloch-Zentrum
  • Ernst Bloch Assoziation


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4 Era20th century philosophyRegionWestern PhilosophySchoolWestern MarxismMarxist hermeneutics 1 2 InstitutionsLeipzig UniversityUniversity of TubingenMain interestsHumanism philosophy of history 3 nature subjectivity ideology utopia religion theologyNotable ideasThe principle of hope non simultaneity Contents 1 Life 2 Thought 3 Influence 4 Bibliography 4 1 Books 4 2 Articles 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksLife editBloch 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 the couple had to flee first into Switzerland then to Austria France Czechoslovakia and finally the United States He lived briefly in New Hampshire before settling in Cambridge Massachusetts It was there in the reading room of Harvard s Widener Library that Bloch wrote the lengthy three volume work The Principle of Hope He originally planned to publish it there under the title Dreams of a Better Life In 1948 Bloch was offered the chair of philosophy at the University of Leipzig and he returned to East Germany to take up the position In 1955 he was awarded the National Prize of the GDR In addition he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin AdW He had more or less become the political philosopher of the GDR Among his many academic students from this period was his assistant Manfred Buhr who earned his doctorate with him in 1957 and was later a professor in Greifswald then director of the Central Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences ADC in Berlin and who became a critic of Bloch citation needed However the Hungarian uprising in 1956 led Bloch to revise his view of the SED Socialist Unity Party regime whilst retaining his Marxist orientation Because he advocated humanistic ideas of freedom he was obliged to retire in 1957 for political reasons not because of his age 72 years A number of scientists and students spoke publicly against this forced retirement among them the renowned professor and colleague Emil Fuchs and his students as well as Fuchs s grandson Klaus Fuchs Kittowski citation needed When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 he did not return to the GDR but went to Tubingen in West Germany where he received an honorary chair in Philosophy He died in Tubingen citation needed Thought editBloch was a highly original and eccentric thinker Much of his writing in particular his magnum opus The Principle of Hope is written in a poetic aphoristic style 6 The Principle of Hope tries to provide an encyclopedic account of mankind s and nature s orientation towards a socially and technologically improved future This orientation is part of Bloch s overarching philosophy Bloch believed the universe is undergoing a transition from its primordial cause Urgrund toward its final goal Endziel 7 He believed this transition is effected through a subject object dialectic and he saw evidence for this process in all aspects of human history and culture Influence edit nbsp Endlose Treppe by Max Bill which is dedicated to the Principle of Hope by Bloch Bloch s work became influential in the course of the student protest movements in 1968 and in liberation theology citation needed It is cited as a key influence by Jurgen Moltmann in his Theology of Hope 1967 Harper and Row New York by Dorothee Solle and by Ernesto Balducci Psychoanalyst Joel Kovel has praised Bloch as the greatest of modern utopian thinkers 8 Robert S Corrington has been influenced by Bloch though he has tried to adapt Bloch s ideas to serve a liberal rather than a Marxist politics 9 Bloch s concept of concrete utopias found in The Principle of Hope was used by Jose Esteban Munoz to shift the field of performance studies This shift allowed for the emergence of utopian performativity and a new wave of performance theorizing as Bloch s formulation of utopia shifted how scholars conceptualize the ontology and the staging of performances as imbued with an enduring indeterminacy 10 as opposed to dominant performance theories found in the work of Peggy Phelan who view performance as a life event without reproduction Bibliography editBooks edit Geist der Utopie 1918 The Spirit of Utopia Stanford 2000 Thomas Muntzer als Theologe der Revolution 1921 Thomas Muntzer as Theologian of Revolution Spuren 1930 Traces Stanford University Press 2006 Erbschaft dieser Zeit 1935 Heritage of Our Times Polity 1991 Freiheit und Ordnung 1947 Freedom and Order Subjekt Objekt 1949 Christian Thomasius 1949 Avicenna und die aristotelische Linke 1949 Avicenna and the aristotelian Left Das Prinzip Hoffnung 3 vols 1938 1947 The Principle of Hope MIT Press 1986 Naturrecht und menschliche Wurde 1961 Natural Law and Human Dignity MIT Press 1986 Tubinger Einleitung in die Philosophie 1963 The Tubingen Introduction in Philosophy Religion im Erbe 1959 66 trans Man on His Own Herder and Herder 1970 On Karl Marx 1968 Herder and Herder 1971 Atheismus im Christentum 1968 trans Atheism in Christianity 1972 Politische Messungen Pestzeit Vormarz 1970 Political Measurements the Plague Pre March Das Materialismusproblem seine Geschichte und Substanz 1972 The Problem of Materialism Its History and Substance Experimentum Mundi Frage Kategorien des Herausbringens Praxis 1975 Experimentum Mundi Question Categories of Realization Praxis Articles edit Causality and Finality as Active Objectifying Categories Categories of Transmission Telos 21 Fall 1974 New York Telos PressSee also editExilliteraturReferences edit Amacher Richard E Lange Victor 2015 New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism A Collection of Essays Princeton University Press p 11 ISBN 978 0 691 63084 7 Erasmus Speculum Scientarium 25 p 162 the different versions of Marxist hermeneutics by the examples of Walter Benjamin s Origins of the German Tragedy sic and also by Ernst Bloch s Hope the Principle sic Kaufmann David 1997 Thanks for the Memory Bloch Benjamin and the Philosophy of History In Daniel Jamie Owen Moylan Tom eds Not Yet Reconsidering Ernst Bloch London and New York Verson p 33 ISBN 0 86091 439 9 His thesis title was Kritische Erorterungen uber Rickert und das Problem der modernen Erkenntnistheorie Critical discussions on Rickert and the problem of modern epistemology Thesis OCLC 27568512 Professoren der Uni Leipzig 1945 1993 Archived from the original on 2019 11 21 a b Kolakowski Leszek 1985 Main Currents of Marxism Volume 3 The Breakdown Oxford Oxford University Press pp 421 449 ISBN 0 19 285109 8 Levy Ze ev 1990 Utopia and Reality in the Philosophy of Ernst Bloch Utopian Studies 1 2 3 12 ISSN 1045 991X JSTOR 20718997 Kovel Joel 1991 History and Spirit An Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation Boston Beacon Press p 261 ISBN 0 8070 2916 5 Corrington Robert S 1992 Nature and Spirit An Essay in Ecstatic Naturalism New York Fordham University Press p 113 ISBN 0 8232 1363 3 Munoz Jose Esteban 2009 Cruising Utopia The Then and There of Queer Futurity New York New York University Press p 99 ISBN 978 0 8147 5727 7 Further reading editWerner Raupp Ernst Bloch in Biographisch Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon BBKL Vol 14 Herzberg Bautz 1998 ISBN 3 88309 073 5 Col 783 810 with detailed bibliography Adorno Theodor W 1991 Ernst Bloch s Spuren Notes to Literature Volume One New York Columbia University Press Dietschy Beat in German Zeilinger Doris Zimmermann Rainer eds 2012 Bloch Worterbuch Leitbegriffe der Philosophie Ernst Blochs Bloch Dictionary principle concepts of the philosophy of Ernst Bloch in German Berlin Walter de Gruyter ISBN 9783110256710 Retrieved 2018 08 01 Thompson Peter and Slavoj Zizek eds 2013 The Privatization of Hope Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia Durham NC Duke University Press Boldyrev Ivan 2014 Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries Locating Utopian Messianism London and New York Bloomsbury Geoghegan Vincent 1996 Ernst Bloch London Routledge Hudson Wayne 1982 The Marxist philosophy of Ernst Bloch New York St Martin s Press Schmidt Burghard 1985 Ernst Bloch Stuttgart Metzler Munster Arno de 1989 Ernst Bloch messianisme et utopie PUF Paris Jones John Miller 1995 Assembling Post modernism The Utopian Philosophy of Ernst Bloch New York P Lang Studies in European thought volume 11 Korstvedt Benjamin M 2010 Listening for utopia in Ernst Bloch s musical philosophy Cambridge Cambridge University Press West Thomas H 1991 Ultimate hope without God the atheistic eschatology of Ernst Bloch New York P Lang American university studies series 7 Theology religion volume 97 External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Ernst Bloch Ernst Bloch entry by Ivan Boldyrev in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Illuminations Ernst Bloch Utopia and Ideology Critique By Douglas Kellner Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies School of Advanced Study University of London Ernst Bloch Zentrum Ernst Bloch Assoziation Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ernst Bloch amp oldid 1218540584, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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