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Ernst Bloch 2
Work
Bloch's work became very influential in the course of the student
protest movements in 1968 and in liberation theology. 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.
Bloch's The Principle of Hope was written during his emigration in the
USA, where he lived briefly in New Hampshire before settling in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. He wrote the lengthy three volume work in
the reading room of Harvard's Widener Library. Bloch originally
planned to publish it there under the title Dreams of a Better Life. The
Principle of Hope tries to provide an encyclopedic account of
mankind's and nature's orientation towards a socially and
technologically improved future.
Critical evaluations
Joel Kovel has praised Bloch as, "the greatest of modern utopian
thinkers". [1]
Bibliography
Books
• Geist der Utopie (1918) (The Spirit of Utopia, Stanford, 2000)
Endlose Treppe by Max Bill, which is dedicated
to the Principle of Hope by Bloch.
• Thomas Müntzer als Theologe der Revolution (1921) (Thomas Müntzer as Theologian of Revolution)
• Spuren (1930) (Traces, Stanford University Press, 2006)
• Erbschaft dieser Zeit (1935) (Bequest of This Time)
• 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)
• 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)