{"id":12984,"date":"2023-03-22T10:44:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T09:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/ernst-bloch\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T09:51:42","slug":"ernst-bloch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/en\/biographies\/ernst-bloch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernst Bloch"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"12984\" class=\"elementor elementor-12984 elementor-8335\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-59b7dd8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"59b7dd8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-56c07da\" data-id=\"56c07da\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18df138e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"18df138e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Ernst Bloch<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40acbe6c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"40acbe6c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">(born 1885 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein \u2013 died 1977 in T\u00fcbingen)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4adba076 elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4adba076\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2ab415d7\" data-id=\"2ab415d7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1109ee80 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1109ee80\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\"The problem of freedom is its ambiguity.\"*<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3c46bd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c3c46bd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Ernst Bloch, a Marxist-inspired philosopher, criticised bourgeois society\u2014and hoped for a fairer world. Ernst Bloch grew up in the German Empire as the son of a railway employee in a Palatinate-Jewish family. The Jewish religion did not play a significant role in the Bloch family home. Early on, he was outraged by the contrast between the proletarian environment of his hometown of Ludwigshafen and nearby bourgeois Mannheim. At the time of the First World War, Bloch attracted attention as a committed opponent of the war, resulting in his falling out with former friends and his eventual immigration to Switzerland. In the course of the National Socialists\u2019 seizure of power, he was expatriated and\u2014like fellow thinkers Horkheimer and Adorno\u2014 moved to the USA. Here, he became involved in the journalistic struggle against the Nazi regime and wrote his philosophical magnum opus, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope). In 1949, he returned to Germany, where he settled in the GDR and took on an apprenticeship in Leipzig. His belief in the emancipatory potential of socialism, however, was to be met with disappointment. Referencing the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, Bloch expressed criticism of Moscow&#8217;s actions and the party leadership of the SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, Eng.: Socialist Unity Party of Germany). Shortly thereafter, he was forced into retirement. Bloch moved to the West and became committed to a critical examination of National Socialism and against the war in Vietnam. His utopian programme of a liberated society as well as his passionately invoked hope for the &#8220;not-yet-become&#8221;, intended to provide a directive to people of the present, made Ernst Bloch a key figure in the political youth movement of 1968.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33a6bc9d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"33a6bc9d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>*Bloch, E., Complete Edition, Vol. 5, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), Frankfurt\/Main. 1959.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-174b57ca\" data-id=\"174b57ca\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-355c975b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"355c975b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"402\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ernst-Bloch.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9075\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ernst-Bloch.jpg 402w, https:\/\/www.toleranzraeume.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ernst-Bloch-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-35545-0009 \/ CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE , via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernst Bloch (born 1885 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein \u2013 died 1977 in T\u00fcbingen) &#8220;The problem of freedom is its ambiguity.&#8221;* Ernst Bloch, a Marxist-inspired philosopher, criticised bourgeois society\u2014and hoped for a fairer world. 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