Ernst Bloch: The Pugnacious Philosopher of Hope

by Jack D. Zipes

Book Overview

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volume opus, The Principle of Hope, while living in exile in the United States from 1938 to 1940. It was first published, however, in East Germany in the 1950s after he had returned to Europe and became a professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030211762
• ISBN13: 9783030211769
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"