Ernst Bloch and The Philosophy (Principle) of Hope

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[@Work-WorkBalance]

Ernst Bloch is probably the most underrated philosopher of the 20th century. I really recommend to read his books

[@Bojoschannel]

"Even a well-founded hope can be disappointed, otherwise it would not be hope..." that hit hard, so simple, yet so charged with meaning.

[@epochphilosophy]

A nice dialectician Bloch is.

[@Bojoschannel]

@@epochphilosophy so he seems, will check him out! Thanks a lot for your videos as always

[@phishlipsable]

i maintain a nihilist attitude albiet what i consider optimistic nihilism. this video supports the field (no pun intended) i work within: sustainable agriculture. i need to think more on the idea of hope (i have a lot of time these days as most fruiting crops are ready), but i believe practicing ~good~ land management is absolutely tied to hope. most (good) farmers always claim they build soil first then crops. building soil, to me, is the most hopeful venture i can ever participate, and i feel hopeful because the history of agriculture is never over! thanks for giving my field thoughts something new to consider.

[@JonTheLitCritGuy]

Thank you so much for the chance to work on this with you, it came together so well!

[@epochphilosophy]

Big thanks for all the help dude.

[@AWorldtoWin]

Beautifully done comrades. Bloch had the rare gift of being a powerful thinker who was also a gorgeous writer. People like Kant were of course profound thinkers but-in my opinion anyhow-wrote in an incredibly turgid way. For the ruthless criticism of all that exists. Melody

[@epochphilosophy]

Thank you! I agree though. I find the same powerful prose with someone like Nietzsche. Albeit, while I like Nietzsche and appreciate him in many respects, I much more relate and appreciate to people like Bloch. Art, writing, and feeling is important. Bloch understood that.

[@hanskung3278]

They were all great thinkers because they were incomprehensible.

[@mranderson4739]

This is amazing. The comment section is to me not able to express my feelings towards this video. Hope and Utopia are worth striving towards. Murray Bookchin’s writings on Social Ecology has been a big influence on myself. What can we be? Our potential is still there.

[@NuttyNeil76]

You need to be able to imagine an alternative future before you can apply 'hard work only.' Like Deleuze says, the role of philosophy is to open up new ground, and allow us to think in new ways that allow us to create new futures.

[@NuttyNeil76]

@@lepidoptera9337 Brother, are you stupid? You realise that philosophy (and the world for that matter) has changed in the last 2000 years yeah?

[@russellfacemire]

YES. So glad to see this collaboration!

[@matthewr7593]

Great video! I was fortunate enough to get an entire grad school class on Bloch's work at Stony Brook about a decade ago. Life changing material.

[@epochphilosophy]

Truly a good one. And royally under discussed.

[@LogicGated]

Love how easily this video breaks down the concepts for us.

[@ThenNow]

Awesome and inspiring job. Reminded me of Spinoza and Deleuze a lot. I'm wondering whether you or @thelitcritguy know whether Deleuze was influenced by Bloch at all?

[@epochphilosophy]

Truly has some similar ways of looking at action and process as Spinoza. I think that's a reason I've connected with Bloch like I have. And that's a good question actually. I'd argue out of older critical theorists, Deleuze would probably look much more fondly on Bloch.

[@mapleandsteel]

"Hope is a doggie. A cute doggie. Standing next to a rose" - Tenacious D

[@epochphilosophy]

Not sure the context of this, but hell ya man.

[@ellastack1093]

This is a really helpful introduction to a great and lengthy work! Thank you so much!

[@DamonD_Absences]

That was absolutely beautiful, moving, and inspirational. Thank you for creating this.

[@JordiSarda]

Just wonderful. Thanks.

[@caitlinoloughlin9495]

Thank you for this amazing video. I'm wrestling with Bloch for my dissertation and this was such a great framing for me as I read his work.

[@iloveowls8748]

Can't wait to watch!

[@hanskung3278]

I don't know what to think about this vid., because in part I don't understand it completely but I feel that being only present oriented, perhaps denying that there is a future, possibly because it might be a grim future, is oppressive....and listening to Bloch opens up the future and inspired me to look to religion and a future positive orientation and 'seek first the Kingdom of God....", according to Bloch we are never satisfied and according to Augustine "our hearts are restless until they rest in you Lord".

[@tierfreund780]

I've experienced this feeling of Vorschein. been in a temporary space which upheld the principle and created safe home for living things. it's real

[@feelthewyrd]

i had never heard of bloch. Incomplete reality is something that i relate to .... but trying to get someone to understand it can easily feel hopeless! lol

[@caymuscairns6845]

MLK made me cry

[@epochphilosophy]

He certainly has that ability. A politics, movement and purpose void of affect and feeling is doomed from the start in my mind. MLK is a good example of that.

[@JJ-wi2uw]

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems and nothing is ever as good as it seems.

[@enfercesttout]

oh that term came from him. "Aristotelian left".

[@gingleright]

Great stuff

[@oluwatobaajani1379]

You have a great channel, lad. I've thoroughly enjoyed your content and I can confidently say you've contributed a lot to my intellectual journey in the past year. I hope the new year brings you peace and goodwill and perhaps, more capital for me so I can support your channel financially 😄. This was my first exposure to utopian Marxism and I think I need to get more familiar with the literature. Goodluck with the channel, lad.

[@epochphilosophy]

Thanks so much!

[@sacrom5398]

one tiny correction, 10:57 that is Ernest Bloch the composer, not Ernst Bloch

[@epochphilosophy]

Holy shit. They actually look alike, too lol.

[@sacrom5398]

@@epochphilosophy truly, thanks for the great work, by far my favorite philosophy youtuber

[@ornos3133]

What did Bloch thought of stoicism and their general case of misplaced hope?

[@TheJayman213]

btw, have y'all listened to Red Enlightenment?

[@TheYopogo]

Can I just say your sound design is amazing. Do you post the ambient background tracks anywhere?

[@epochphilosophy]

The tracks in this video is from Black Brunswicker! Go look him up on Bandcamp, he's amazing!

[@theeverlastingman]

The problem with Hope is that hope by its vain nature implies the uncertain, invoking the absurd. It is unstable to the barred subject. “I have hope that it will happen” Vision with no substance By contrast Faith is the substance of Hope and thereby is the certainty that holds together the integrity of the conscience, rendering the object stable. “I have faith that it will happen.” The thing-at-hand, is already declared present. Applying an absolute, transcendent essence . Meaning returns. A kind of intrinsic hermeneutic. Hebrews 11:1

[@eupraxis1]

Nice video, but that spacey drone behind it is, eventually, disturbing.

[@hanskung3278]

Has any tried to read principle of hope?, its impenetrable.

[@djl8710]

"Hope" is the thing with feathers.

[@hanskung3278]

Is it ever mentioned that hope requires trust=faith, oh, did I say a dirty word?

[@MattAngiono]

The world is not yet vegan, and humanity is not yet humane. The suffering of conscious creatures is not yet more important than personal pleasure. Some day. 😔

[@mjolninja9358]

어떻게

[@jthadcast]

not yet ... but a totally consistant logical fallacy that meets their radical fiction and desired expectations. just like how immortality is in our future, pre or post mortem, only a mere decade or centuries in the future. ugh.

[@corrupted6683]

Tf are you talking about

[@user-we5eh6kj9g]

semi -semi- nonsense

[@hanskung3278]

So why isn't religion relevant in the sense of opening up and orienting us to the future and freeing us from an the oppression of the present? I really don't get it, if you take Bloch seriously then religion can be an answer and by religion I'm not talking of fossilized Dogmas or bureaucratically organized Churches.

[@hanskung3278]

I thought it was a good question.

[@lolkiaha3765]

you guys don't know how to explain things. i have never got any information from you even having watched a video twice