Heat flow / cold flow

Heat flow / cold flow are social analytical terms. In the philosophy of Ernst Bloch is cold current sober exact analysis of society as a critique of political economy meant; With the heat flow, a social analysis based on people's expectations. The latter is intended to capture people's hopes . Bloch developed the pair of terms heat flow / cold flow in detail in his work inheritance of this time and in the following first volume, the principle of hope .

Ernst Bloch designed this pair of terms when the National Socialists came to power to explain why they were so successful. In contrast to the Social Democrats and Communists , they did not refer - for example in the speeches in the Sports Palace - to the hard facts of a precise analysis of the economic and political distribution of resources and power, but to the expectations of the people. A good social analysis needs both the heat and cold flow of cold facts. The heat flow relates to what is in-possibility, the cold flow to what is after-possible.

Web links

• Michael Brie: Between heat flow and cold shock. Contribution to the workshop on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Ernst Bloch's death
• Annette Schlemm : "On the cold flow - heat flow in images of nature". Ernst Bloch and the modern philosophy of science, lecture at the international conference "From Physics to Politics" (from April 22nd to 25th, 2005 in the Ernst Bloch Center Ludwigshafen)

literature

• Ernst Bloch: Inheritance from this time , (Zurich 1935) Frankfurt a. M. 1985, ISBN 3-518-28153-4
• Ernst Bloch: The principle of hope. Volume 1 1954-1959, ISBN 3-518-28154-2