Zabel_ueber_Bloch_plus_Info_dt_engl - Omnia vincit Amor

that many of these relationships
deserve to be sacrificed That much
from the past is oppressive and these
images are embodied in works of
culture, art. Nothing at all can be
understood about people apart from
the dimension of hope. Hope produces
wish-images and one from the present
coming together. That was an
important theme in Blochs work. He
was, as you know, a Marxist. But he
found a place for ancient streams of
thought that Marxism had not
incorporated including NeoPlatonism,
occultism, Eschatological religion and
others. And he brought the two
streams together, first in a book he
wrote when he was still a young man,
Spirit of Utopia. He was under his
wife's influence then a Russian
influenced by Christian mysticism,
and then in his masterwork The
Principle of Hope. It is the second
book I want to focus on because there