Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic (died 1977)

Ernst Bloch

German Marxist philosopher (1885–1977)

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…