Ernst Bloch

Tags: Philosopher.

Ernst Bloch (German: [ˈɛʁnst ˈblɔx] July 8 1885 – August 4 1977) 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 Boehme. He established friendships with György Lukács Bertolt Brecht Kurt Weill Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno.

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birth date

1885-07-08

birth place

German Empire, Germany, Ludwigshafen

death date

1977-08-04

death place

Germany, Tübingen, West Germany

era

20th-century philosophy

individualised GND number

118511742

influenced

Jürgen Moltmann, Ernesto Balducci

influenced by

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Karl May, Oswald Külpe

LCCN Id

n/80/17827

main interest

Nature, Religion, Theology, Utopia, Ideology, Humanism, Subjectivity, History

philosophicalSchool

Marxism