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Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch

Philosopher
1885 (Ludwigshafen)–1977 (Tübingen)

In a century of failed, wayward and criminally degenerate utopias, he held fast to utopia and hope as the core of humaneness. Bloch, who experienced several stations in exile, made this statement of all statements about the word "homeland":
"True Genesis is not at the beginning but at the end, and it starts to begin only when society and existence become radical, i.e. to grasp their roots. But the root of history is the working, creating human being who reshapes and overhauls the given facts. Once he has grasped himself and re-established what is his, without expropriation and alienation, in real democracy, there arises in the world something which shines into the childhood of all and in which no one has yet been: a homeland." (Bronner, 65)

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