Ernst Bloch The Pugnacious Philosopher of Hope
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volume opus, The Principle of Hope, while living in exile
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The Pugnacious Philosopher of Hope Jack Zipes
Ernst Bloch “As Jack Zipes points out in this excellent study, Ernst Bloch was a philosopher who was always out of step: A Marxist who disagreed with most Marxists, an atheist theologian, a utopian thinker who disagreed with most utopian thinking, a man who believed in hope as our “invariant of direction” and yet who lived through the horrors of fascism, war and Stalinism. This much neglected thinker has been done a great service by this study.” —Peter Thompson, Professor, Director of Ernst Bloch Studies, University of Sheffield
Jack Zipes
Ernst Bloch The Pugnacious Philosopher of Hope
Jack Zipes Minneapolis, MN, USA
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In Memory of Anna Donzelli
Preface
Out of Step Ernst Bloch was, is, and will always be out of step. He was a bad dancer with the times. He stumbled while numerous politicians and thinkers waltzed over the bodies of little people in step to the same music. Monotonous militant music. Bloch tried to add some color and bounce to the music, and in the process, he alienated many people including himself. Banged about from country to country by wars, betrayed by vile rulers of the world and the perverse conditions of his times, he fought with bare knuckles to survive while endeavoring to save what was vital in the remnants of civilizing processes that had gone awry. He stumbled but landed o
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