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The aim of this chapter is to bring to light the kind of atheism in Bloch’s thought, the reasons he has for this atheism, and the ontological model that underlies what serves as a reason — at least insofar as such ontological presuppositions mesh with one of the ontological models presented in the preceding section, namely, the subject-object or will-nature model. This purpose serves this essay’s larger intent, to see how hope-analysis and analysis of grounds for hope incline towards theism or atheism, particularly as mediated by certain ontological presuppositions. For this larger purpose, then, Bloch’s thought serves as a paradigm of one kind of atheism and one type of ontology.
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On Bloch’s atheism, see Ronald M. Green, “Ernst Bloch’s Revision of Atheism,” Journal of Religion 49 (1969): 128–35;
Theodor Heim, “Blochs Atheismus,” in Ernst Bloch zu ehren: Beiträge zu seinem Werk, ed. Siegfried Unseld (Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1965), pp. 157–80;
Jürgen Moltmann, “Hope without Faith: An Eschatological Humanism without God,” in Is God Dead?, ed. Johannes Metz, Concilium: Theology in the Age of Renewal, vol. 16 (New York: Paulist Press, 1966), pp. 25–40.
Egenolf Roeder von Diersburg, Zur Ontologie und Logik offener Systeme: Ernst Bloch vor dem Gesetz der Tradition (Hamburg: Meiner, 1967).
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Godfrey, J.J. (1987). Bloch’s Atheism and Ontology: A Sketch. In: Godfrey, J.J. (eds) A Philosophy of Human Hope. Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3499-3_17
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