Ernst Bloch
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Ernst Simon Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinkers such as Thomas Müntzer, Parace
Bloch in 1954
Endlose Treppe by Max Bill, which is dedicated to the Principle of Hope by Bloch
Theodor W. Adorno
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Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as E
Ernst Bloch
…such as Thomas Müntzer, Paracelsus, and Jacob Böhme. He established friendships with György Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno. Bloch's work focuses on an optimistic teleology of the history of mankind. Bloch was born in Ludwigshafen, the son of a Jewish railway employee. After…
Adorno in 1964
The "Adorno traffic light" on Senckenberganlage, a street which divides the Institute for Social Research from the University of Frankfurt am Main. Adorno requested its construction after a pedestrian death in 1962, and it was finally installed 25 years later.
Adorno mural in Frankfurt