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* 1885 – Ernst Bloch, German philosopher ( d. 1977 )

The German philosopher Ernst Bloch attempted to reveal what he considered the hidden metaphysical meaning of Marx's thought, which Leszek Kołakowski summarizes as, " a picture of the world tending towards a universal synthesis of all forces and factors, not only social phenomena but the cosmos as a whole.

There Weber became a central figure in the so-called " Weber Circle ," composed of other intellectuals such as his wife Marianne, Georg Jellinek, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, Marc Bloch, Robert Michels and György Lukács.

Another prominent New Left thinker, Ernst Bloch, believed that socialism would prove the means for all human beings to become immortal and eventually create God.

To this end, he compares George Orwell's Coming Up for Air with Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and concludes that the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum, a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as " a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-( and in the current state of knowledge ) impossible ".

He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the work of Freud, Marx and Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society.

Along with future collaborators like Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Ernst Bloch, Adorno was profoundly disillusioned by the ease with which Germany's intellectual and spiritual leaders — among them Max Weber, Max Scheler, Ernst Simmel, as well as his friend Siegfried Kracauer — came out in support of the war.

The eldest daughter of the Karplus family, Margarete, or Gretel, moved in the intellectual circles of Berlin, where she was acquainted with Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Bloch, each of whom Adorno would become familiar with during the mid-20s ; after fourteen years, Gretel and Theodor were married in 1937.

Political theorist Ernst Bloch described Weimar culture as a Periclean Age.

( Includes classic texts of kitsch criticism from authors like Theodor Adorno, Ferdinand Avenarius, Edward Koelwel, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Hermann Broch, Richard Egenter, etc.

Ludwigshafen is the birthplace of the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl and the philosopher Ernst Bloch.

In 1917 he transferred to the University of Bern ; there, he met Ernst Bloch, and Dora Sophie Pollak ( née Kellner ) ( 1890 – 1964 ), whom he later married, and they had a son, Stefan Rafael ( 1918 – 1972 ).

Later that year, Benjamin and Ernst Bloch resided in the Italian island of Capri ; Benjamin wrote Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiel ( The Origin of German Tragic Drama ), as an habilitation dissertation meant to qualify him as a tenured university professor in Germany.

* Ernst Bloch, philosopher

* Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch ( 1885 – 1977 ) was a German Marxist philosopher and atheist theologian.

New Musicology is distinct from German music sociology in the work of Adorno, Max Weber and Ernst Bloch.

* Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch (, July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977 ) was a German Marxist philosopher.

Ernst Bloch, London, Routledge

The Marxist philosophy of Ernst Bloch, New York, St. Martin's Press

Surrealists like Hans Arp and Max Ernst might talk of creation by hazard -- of composing pictures by walking on them with painted soles, or by tossing bits of paper up in the air.

* 1976 – Max Ernst, German artist ( b. 1891 )

* 1891 – Max Ernst, German painter ( d. 1976 )

Among his associates were Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Bror Hjorth and Balthus.

Many artists, including Martin Schongauer, Hieronymus Bosch, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí, have depicted these incidents from the life of Anthony ; in prose, the tale was retold and embellished by Gustave Flaubert in The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

* The Elephant Celebes, a 1921 Surrealist work by Max Ernst

As well as the main members of Berlin Dada, Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, Höch, Johannes Baader, Huelsenbeck and Heartfield, the exhibition also included work by Otto Dix, Francis Picabia, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Rudolf Schlichter, Johannes Baargeld and others.

In Cologne, Max Ernst used images from World War I to illustrate messages of the destruction of war.

The German physicist Ernst Ruska and the electrical engineer Max Knoll constructed the prototype electron microscope in 1931, capable of four-hundred-power magnification ; the apparatus was a practical application of the principles of electron microscopy.

In Germany, Ernst Lubitsch got his inspiration from the stage work of Max Reinhardt, both in bourgeois comedy and in spectacle, and applied this to his films, culminating in his die Puppe ( The Doll ), die Austernprinzessin ( The Oyster Princess ) and Madame Dubarry.

Decalcomania, a technique used by artists such as Max Ernst, can produce fractal-like patterns.

Senior staff included Alastair Denniston, Oliver Strachey, Dilly Knox, John Tiltman, Edward Travis, Ernst Fetterlein, Josh Cooper, Donald Michie, Alan Turing, Max Newman, William Tutte, I. J.

The air war on the Western Front received the most attention in the annals of military aviation, since it produced aces such as Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known as the Red Baron, Ernst Udet, Hermann Göring, Oswald Boelcke, Werner Voss, and Max Immelmann ( the first airman to win the Pour le Mérite, Imperial Germany's highest decoration for gallantry, as a result of which the decoration became popularly known as the Blue Max ).

Max Weber ( foreground ) in 1917 with Ernst Toller ( facing )

American artists benefited from the presence of Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst and the André Breton group, Pierre Matisse's gallery, and Peggy Guggenheim's gallery The Art of This Century, as well as other factors.

Among the first to define them were Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch ( 1912 ).

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Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes ( 1921 ), Tate, London

The group grew to include Paul Éluard, Benjamin Péret, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Jacques Baron, Max Morise, Pierre Naville, Roger Vitrac, Gala Éluard, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Hans Arp, Georges Malkine, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Antonin Artaud, Raymond Queneau, André Masson, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, and Yves Tanguy.

Soon more visual artists became involved, including Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Alberto Giacometti, Valentine Hugo, Méret Oppenheim, Toyen, and later after the second war: Enrico Donati.

However, a striking example of the line used to divide Dada and Surrealism among art experts is the pairing of 1925's Little Machine Constructed by Minimax Dadamax in Person ( Von minimax dadamax selbst konstruiertes maschinchen ) with The Kiss ( Le Baiser ) from 1927 by Max Ernst.

Max Ernst, L ' Ange du Foyer ou le Triomphe du Surréalisme ( 1937 ), private collection.

During the 1930s Peggy Guggenheim, an important American art collector, married Max Ernst and began promoting work by other Surrealists such as Yves Tanguy and the British artist John Tunnard.