Ernst Bloch as a non-simultaneous Jewish Marxist

doi:10.3390/rel9110346

Ernst Bloch as a non-simultaneous Jewish Marxist

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title:	Ernst Bloch as a non-simultaneous Jewish Marxist
author:	Tacik Przemysław
journal title:	Religions
title of volume:	Unexpected convergences : religious nationalism in Israel and Turkey
volume:	9
issue:	11
date of publication :	2018
pages:	1-20
article ID:	346
ISSN:	2077-1444
DOI:	10.3390/rel9110346
URL:	https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/11/346
date accessed:	2019-03-11
notes:	Art. przypisany przez wydawcę jednocześnie do numeru specjalnego (This article belongs to the Special Issue: "The Marrano Phenomenon. Jewish "Hidden Tradition" and Modernity")
language:	English
journal language:	English
abstract in English:	The paper attempts to reassess the fundamentally paradoxical position of Ernst Bloch in 20th century philosophy in the light of the Marranic condition. Indebted, among others, to Jewish heritage and Christian tradition, Bloch considered himself primarily a Marxist. Bloch's uniqueness consists in the stunning equiponderance of the currents he drew from. Contrary to a classic model of modern Jewish philosophy, inaugurated by Hermann Cohen, Bloch's thinking does not allow of easy juxtaposition of "sources" with languages into which they were translated. In this sense, Bloch cannot be easily compared to Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas or even Walter Benjamin (although he bore some striking similarities with the latter). His position at least partly stems from a specific form of directness with which he often used these languages, composing his philosophy in quite an anachronist manner. For this reason his thinking - in itself "die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen", as one of his key concepts theorises - is a very modern, internally incoherent space of cross-fertilising inspirations. The paper demonstrates two levels on which Bloch's indebtedness to Judaism might be analysed and then re-assesses his Marxist affiliations as a kind of modern faith which, in a specifically Marranic manner, seals the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous.
keywords in English:	Ernst Bloch, Jewish philosophy, Marranism, Messianism, Marxism, utopia, Lurianic Kabbalah
number of pulisher's sheets:	1,74
affiliation:	Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych : Instytut Europeistyki
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper