RHEINPFALZ: Philosophie Die Zukunft einer Illusion: Zum Geburtstag von Ernst Bloch
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Ernst Bloch
Ernst Simon Bloch 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 Böhme. He established friendships with György Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno. Bloch's work focuses on an optimistic teleology of the history…
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culture · German Marxist philosopher (1885–1977) · philosopher · university teacher · theologian · also Ernst Bloch, Ernst Simon Bloch, Karl Knerz, Bloch
Born 8 July 1885 · Died 4 August 1977 · Q57240
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RHEINPFALZ: Ludwigshafen Ausstellung im Ernst-Bloch-Zentrum zu Bloch und Engels
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2017· 1 entry
WDR: ZeitZeichen : 04.08.1977 - Todestag des Philosophen Ernst Bloch
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2010· 1 entry
Die Tageszeitung: Zum 125. Geburtstag von Ernst Bloch: Utopie verbindet
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2009· 1 entry
ZEIT: Ernst Bloch : Die Welt am Enterhaken
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2007· 2 entries
Deutschlandfunk: Ein unbekannter Ernst Bloch
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Die Tageszeitung: Philosoph Ernst Bloch: Zur Gelegenheit Denken
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2005· 1 entry
ZEIT: Ernst Bloch : Der Glückskern
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1977· 1 entry
Died 1977-08-04.
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Sigmund Freud Prize (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (1974).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (1967).
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1961· 1 entry
Did not return to the GDR, but went to Tübingen in West Germany, where he received an honorary chair in Philosophy
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1957· 2 entries
And was later a professor in Greifswald, then director of the Central Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences (ADC) in Berlin and who became a critic of Bloch
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For political reasons – not because of his age, 72 years
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1956· 1 entry
Led Bloch to revise his view of the SED (Socialist Unity Party) regime, whilst retaining his Marxist orientation
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1955· 1 entry
Was awarded the National Prize of the GDR
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1948· 1 entry
Bloch was offered the chair of philosophy at Leipzig University, and he returned to East Germany to take up the position
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-07-08.
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