The Principle of Hope

The Principle of Hope
	Cover of the German edition
Author	Ernst Bloch
Original title	Das Prinzip Hoffnung
Translators	Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, Paul Knight
Language	German
Subject	Utopias
Published	1954 (in German); 1986 (MIT Press, in English);
Publication place	Germany
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
ISBN	978-0262521994 (vol. 1); 978-0262522007 (vol. 2); 978-0262522014 (vol. 3)

The Principle of Hope (German: Das Prinzip Hoffnung) is a book by the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, published in three volumes in 1954, 1955, and 1959, in which the author explores utopianism, studying the utopian impulses present in art, literature, religion and other forms of cultural expression, and envisages a future state of absolute perfection. The Principle of Hope has become fundamental to dialogue between Christians and Marxists.^[1]

^ Corrington, Robert S. (1987). The Community of Interpreters: On the Hermeneutics of Nature and the Bible in the American Philosophical Tradition. Mercer University Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-86554-284-8.

[Corrington-1] Corrington, Robert S. (1987). The Community of Interpreters: On the Hermeneutics of Nature and the Bible in the American Philosophical Tradition. Mercer University Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-86554-284-8.

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