Jan Robert Bloch

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Jan Robert Bloch (born September 10, 1937 in Prague ; † May 13, 2010 in Berlin ) was a natural scientist, educator and social philosopher .

Life

Jan Robert Bloch was the son of the architect Karola Bloch and the philosopher Ernst Bloch . He grew up in the USA and in the GDR. In 1961 he moved with his parents to the Federal Republic of Germany when the GDR wall was built . As a scientist, he taught at the Institute for Science Education at the University of Kiel and gave lectures in the fields of political philosophy and sociology at the University of Potsdam .

In projects of the German Research Foundation he investigated the changing world of work in Germany and Southeast Asia . He was a member of the Ernst Bloch Society. He was on the board of trustees of the Ernst Bloch Foundation and on the scientific advisory board of the Ernst Bloch Center in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. With his technical expertise as a chemist, he supported the ecological discussion of the anti-nuclear movement . He initiated the interdisciplinary "Working Group on Nature Quality" ("Problem community for the purpose of presenting and discussing approaches to a pedagogy of the qualitative concept of nature") with experts from different disciplines such as Michael Daxner , Rudolf zur Lippe , Burghart Schmidt , Christine Woesler or Brigitte Wormbs . Jan Robert Bloch was non-party.

He published several books, as well as numerous articles in the Bloch yearbook of the Ernst Bloch Society , in the yearbook "Vorschein" of the Ernst Bloch Association and accompanied the publication of the works and the estate of Karola Bloch in the Talheimer Verlag. He advocated the development of a “Critical Complete Edition” of Ernst Bloch's work. He supported the work of the Löwenstein Research Association Mössingen to come to terms with the history of Artur and Felix Löwenstein, the Jewish founders of the textile company PAUSA, which is affiliated with the Bauhaus Dessau.

Jan Robert Bloch had three children. Hannes Gustav (* 1976) and Anna Leonore (* 1978) Bloch emerged from his first marriage to June Ann Bloch (born Trammell, 1941–2007), Benjamin Pasero (* 1981) as the third child from a long-term relationship with Ursula Pasero .

Jan Robert Bloch was married to Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch.

He died in Berlin after a short illness.

Fonts

  • Nature and work: To determine their mediation Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 1982.
  • Crystals of utopia. Thoughts on Ernst Bloch's political philosophy . Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 1995.
  • Utopia: Locations in nowhere: Concept and function of social designs . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1997.
  • "I am. But I don't have myself. That's why we will. «Perspectives on Ernst Bloch's philosophy. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1997.
  • Jan Robert Bloch, Anne Frommann, Welf Schröter: Letters through the wall. Correspondence 1954 - 1998 between Ernst & Karola Bloch and Jürgen & Johanna Teller. Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 2009.
Articles (selection)
  • Nature alliance: To develop a guiding principle. In: M. Daxner, JR Bloch, B. Schmidt (eds.): Working group nature quality. Different views of nature. Münster 1983, pp. 1–33 (with B. Schmidt)
  • An Advent in Mössingen. Felix and Artur Löwenstein. In: Francesca Vidal (ed.): Bloch-Jahrbuch 2009. Dreams against walls. Dreams against walls. Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 2009. pp. 62–82.
  • Saying the unspeakable: Ernst Bloch's language as an appropriate method . In: Rainer E. Zimmermann, Gerd Koch (eds.): U-Topoi. Aesthetics and political practice with Ernst Bloch. Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 1996, p. 112.
  • Problems of speculative physics . In: Francesca Vidal (ed.): Nature alliance - from physics to politics. Bloch yearbook 2004. Talheimer Verlag, Moessingen 2004, p. 343ff.
  • Bauhaus, ornament, utopia . In: Francesca Vidal (ed.): Bloch yearbook 2008. Ernst Bloch and the Bauhaus - yesterday and today. Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 2008, p. 38ff.

literature

  • Anne Monika Sommer-Bloch: Conversations with Jan at the Berlin tea table . In: Francesca Vidal (ed.): Bloch yearbook 2007. Dreams of better education. On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Anne Frommann and the 70th birthday of Jan Robert Bloch. Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 2007, pp. 111–114.
  • Irene Scherer, Welf Schröter (ed.): Karola Bloch - architect, socialist, friend . Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 2010
  • Francesca Vidal: Remembering. for Jan Robert Bloch . In: Francesca Vidal (ed.) Bloch-Jahrbuch 2010. Experiment Welt. On the 125th birthday of Ernst Bloch. In memory of Jan Robert Bloch. Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 2010, pp. 61–65
  • 'Welf Schröter: Adieu Jan. Thoughts of a friend . In: Francesca Vidal (ed.) Bloch-Jahrbuch 2010. Experiment Welt. On the 125th birthday of Ernst Bloch. In memory of Jan Robert Bloch. Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 2010, pp. 66–71

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Brigitte Wormbs, A carpet weaver. In: Francesca Vidal (Ed.) Experiment Welt. Bloch Yearbook 2010. On the 125th birthday of Ernst Bloch. In memory of Jan Robert Bloch. Talheimer Verlag, Mössingen 2010, pp. 76–80
  2. ↑ Bauhaus and PAUSA
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Jan Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2010
Place of death Berlin