ABSTRACT
“Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are we waiting for? What awaits us?”—these are the questions with which Ernst Bloch ([1947] 1986, 3) introduces the reader to The Principle of Hope. They could not resonate more with a contemporary profound loss of certainty and security caused by a violent breakup of the current geopolitical world order. For Bloch, the future contains “what is feared and what is hoped for” (4). The human experience constantly oscillates between two poles: past and future, fear and hope. Bloch’s answer to this human condition relates objectivity to subjectivity, openness to closeness, uncertainty to expectation, and determinacy to the process of becoming and a venturing beyond on the ground of a dialectic tendency inherent in history.
