Bloch, Ernst

Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) was one of the great philosophers and political intellectuals of twentieth-century Germany. Among his works to have appeared in English are" The Spirit of Utopia" (Stanford University Press, 2000)," Literary Essays "(Stanford University Press, 1998)," The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays "(1987), and" The Principle of Hope "(1986).