Ernst Bloch
Ernst Simon Bloch (; ; July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977; pseudonyms:
Karl Jahraus,
Jakob Knerz) 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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