Category: Bloch, Ernst
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Ernst Bloch on Law and the State
Substack latest. We humans are hopeful. Ernst Bloch was on to something. But man on his own is without reasonable hope. We are reduced to praying. The above thought occurred to me during the penumbral twilight period betwixt sleeping and waking.
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Ernst Bloch on Law and the State (Revised)
This is a revision of an entry originally posted on 11 February 2010. Ernst Bloch, like Theodor Adorno, is a leftie worth reading. But here are two passages replete with grotesque exaggeration and plain falsehood. Later, perhaps, I will cite something from Bloch that I approve of. The offensive passages are from the essay, "Karl Marx,…
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Ernst Bloch on Law and the State
Ernst Bloch, like Theodor Adorno, is a leftie worth reading. But here are two passages replete with grotesque exaggeration and plain falsehood. Later, perhaps, I will cite something from Bloch that I approve of. The offensive passages are from the essay, "Karl Marx, Death, and the Apocalypse" in Man on His Own: Essays in the Philosophy…