The Heritage of Our Times (eBook)

Ernst Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers such as Thomas Müntzer, Paracelsus, and Jacob Boehme. He established friendships with György Lukcs, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno.

Part I: Employees and Diversion

Part II: Non-Contemporaneity and Intoxication

Part III: Upper Middle Classes, Objectivity and Montage

Index

"An exemplary work of modern literature."

Times Literary Supplement

"A half-century later, Bloch's untimely meditations on culture
and politics retain their explosive power. Europe's contested
legacy, which he sought to rescue from fascist appropriation,
remains still be be claimed amidst the turmoil of the 1990s.
However discredited his own political allegiances may now seem,
Bloch's intransigent philosophy of hope has gained new urgency and
immediacy."

Martin Jay, University of California,
Berkeley

"Bloch's Heritage of Our Times is a shocking
expressionist excursion, developed in montage form, through the
dialectics and unresolved contradictions of everyday experience and
cultural manifestations of the early Nazi period in Germany. The
work is a rich compendium of explosive insights into historical and
cultural consciousness that force themselves into our times
too."

David Frisby, London School of Economics