20th century · 1885–1977
Who influenced Ernst Bloch?
Influences and legacy
Philosophy of hope and the not-yet: utopia as a category of being.
Ernst Bloch was influenced by Georg W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx, and went on to influence Herbert Marcuse. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Ernst Bloch?
Ernst Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher who drew on Hegel and Marx and on religious and apocalyptic thinkers such as Thomas Müntzer and Jacob Böhme. His work sets out an optimistic view of where human history is heading.
He was friends with György Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Ernst Bloch?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Georg W. F. Hegel 1770–1831
- Karl Marx 1818–1883
Who did Ernst Bloch influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Ernst Bloch.
- Herbert Marcuse 1898–1979
The line of teachers behind Ernst Bloch
The longest documented line of influence ending at Ernst Bloch runs 25 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Karl Marx
- Ernst Bloch
Two steps away from Ernst Bloch
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Ernst Bloch
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Ernst Bloch, with no direct line between them.
- György Lukács 1885–1971
- Karl Jaspers 1883–1969
- Pavel Florensky 1882–1937
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
- Antonio Gramsci 1891–1937
- Edith Stein 1891–1942
- Rudolf Carnap 1891–1970
Ernst Bloch by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 93
- Thinkers downstream
- 1
- Wikipedia languages
- 47 — #52 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Ernst Bloch
- Who influenced Ernst Bloch?
- Georg W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx.
- Who did Ernst Bloch influence?
- Herbert Marcuse.
- When did Ernst Bloch live?
- 1885–1977. The map files Ernst Bloch under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Ernst Bloch card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Ernst Bloch in 47 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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