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 Paul Tillich 15.03.1947 Ernst Bloch Korrespondenz mit Ernst BlochBrief von Ernst Bloch an Paul Tillichvom 11. März 1947Brief von Ernst Bloch an Paul Tillichvom 11. März 1947Brief von Harald Poelchau an Paul Tillichvom 16. März 1947 Englisch Initiale Auszeichnung des Transkripts
March 15, 1947Dear Sirs:

As I understand Dr. Ernest Bloch has applied for a grant for publication completion of his manuscript, tentatively called HOPE, ITS FUNCTIONS AND ITS CONTENTS.Gemeint ist Blochs dreibändiges Werk Das Prinzip Hoffnung.

I have known Dr. Ernest Bloch for about 20 years. Although not being a school philosopher hHe is one of the most brilliant minds in contemporary philosophy, combining an immense amount of historical knowledge with unique imagination and synthetic power. I believe that there is nobody in our generation as well equipped as he to deal with the problems of utopianism and eschatological archetypes. Since his first book THE SPIRIT OF UTOPIANISM he has thought about this problem practically without interruption and has collected an immense empirical material.

The problem itself has become more important than ever before in our present world situation in which intellectual leaders as well as the masses of the people are at the brink of complete hopelessness. An explanation of this state of mind, not only in terms of the appearance and disappearance of symbols of hope in the collective consciousness, would be of immense value for historians, sociologists and psychologists. As philosopher and theologian I – From my knowledge of the manuscript I also can say that theologians and philosophers would greatly profit from a book in which a very large symbolic material is given and interpreted.

Sincerely yours, Paul TillichPaul TillichProfessor at Union Theological Seminary, New York City
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I have known Dr. Ernest Bloch for about 20 years. He is one of the most brilliant minds in contemporary German philosophy. He is not a school philosopher but a man who combines an immense amount of historical knowledge with unique imagination and synthetic power. I do not think that anybody in our generation is as well equipped to deal with the problem of utopianism and eschatology as Ernest Bloch. This is obvious to me not only by the fact that his first book deals with the spirit of utopianism [and that one of his most interesting books deals with the great utopian of the Reformation period Thomas Münzer,Vgl. Ernst Bloch: Thomas Münzer als Theologe der Revolution (1921).] but also from many discussions I had with him about the material he has collected for his suggested work.

The problem itself has come into the foreground during the last decades in Philosophy as well as in Theology. All problems of the philosophy of history center around the question of utopianism and the recent turn in theology instigated by the eschatological school in Biblical criticism and by the widespread school of so-called dialectical theology points in the same direction. Beyond this social and political ethics are fundamentally dependent on the solution of the problem of utopianism.

For all these reasons it would be of inestimable value for our present intellectual situation if the book of Ernest Bloch were published.

Geist der Utopie Ernst Bloch München 1918 Thomas Münzer als Theologe der Revolution Ernst Bloch München Kurt Wolff Verlag 1921 Das Prinzip Hoffnung. Bd. 2 Ernst Bloch Berlin, DDR Aufbau Verlag 1955 Das Prinzip Hoffnung. Bd. 3 Ernst Bloch Berlin, DDR Aufbau Verlag 1959 Das Prinzip Hoffnung. Bd. 1 Ernst Bloch Berlin, DDR Aufbau Verlag 1954 Bloch, Ernst Deutscher Philosoph Tillich, Paul 1886-08-20 Starzeddel, Niederschlesien (heute Polen) 1965-10-22 Chicago, Illinois, USA Theologe, Religionsphilosoph und Pfarrer https://d-nb.info/gnd/118622692

Paul Tillich (20. August 1886 – 22. Oktober 1965) war ein deutscher evangelischer Theologe und Religionsphilosoph. Nach seiner Tätigkeit als Feldprediger im Ersten Weltkrieg lehrte er an verschiedenen Universitäten in Deutschland, bis er 1933 emigrieren musste und in den USA wirkte, unter anderem in New York, Harvard und Chicago. Tillich entwickelte eine Theologie der Kultur und verstand Religion als das „was uns unbedingt angeht“. In seiner „Systematic Theology“ formulierte er die Methode der Korrelation und deutete Gott als „Macht des Seins“. Seine Arbeiten verbinden Theologie, Philosophie und Existenzdenken und hatten großen Einfluss auf das religiöse Denken der Moderne.

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