Thomas Münzer as a Theologian of the Revolution

Of the philosophers who shaped the 20th century, Ernst Bloch was the thinker of departure, resistance and anticipatory consciousness. His leitmotifs »the principle of hope, walking upright« and »concrete utopia« permeated the debates of the turbulent 1960s. Bloch teaches us that philosophical reflection means more than a cartography of the present. The »darkness of the lived moment« and the »ontology of not-yet-being« are categories of a thinking that does not allow its reason to be regimented and that appears in a new light in view of the profound changes in contemporary society. It is time to read Bloch (again).