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| | B - Ernst Bloch 1885-1977 - Principle of Hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) |
 | | But September 20, 1961, Associated Press reported: "The internationally admitted philosopher professor Ernst Bloch did not return from a visit in the Federal Republic (BRD, West-Germany) to the Soviet Zone (GDR, East-Germany)." One of his reasons: The building of the wall (expanding the "Iron Curtain") between the two German states August 13, 1961. |
 | | A cloudy glass also makes anything cloudy, which is poured in..." With such aphorisms Ernst Bloch very soon became a mentor in the epicenter of the 1968 student movement in Tuebingen, a famous university in West-Germany. |
 | | Bloch often tried to convince via small anecdotes, for example the description, how Stephenson, the inventor of the steam engine, managed not to lose HOPE: "In vain he followed the first boiler on wheels running behind. |
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