11 Facts About Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch's work focuses on an optimistic teleology of the history of mankind.

Ernst Bloch was born in Ludwigshafen, the son of a Jewish railway employee.

Ernst Bloch lived briefly in New Hampshire before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ernst Bloch originally planned to publish it there under the title Dreams of a Better Life.

In 1948, Ernst Bloch was offered the chair of philosophy at the University of Leipzig, and he returned to East Germany to take up the position.

Ernst Bloch had more or less become the political philosopher of the GDR.

However, the Hungarian uprising in 1956 led Ernst Bloch to revise his view of the SED regime, whilst retaining his Marxist orientation.

Ernst Bloch engaged with a Christian-Marxist intellectual dialogue group organized by Milan Machovec and others in 1960s Czechoslovakia.

Ernst Bloch believed the universe is undergoing a transition from its primordial cause toward its final goal.

Ernst Bloch believed this transition is effected through a subject-object dialectic, and he saw evidence for this process in all aspects of human history and culture.

Ernst Bloch's work became influential in the course of the student protest movements in 1968 and in liberation theology.