"An exemplary work of modern literature." <p><b>Times Literary Supplement</b></p> <p>"A half-century later, Bloch's untimely meditations on culture and politics retain their explosive power. Europe's contested legacy, which he sought to rescue from fascist appropriation, remains still be be claimed amidst the turmoil of the 1990s. However discredited his own political allegiances may now seem, Bloch's intransigent philosophy of hope has gained new urgency and immediacy."</p> <p><b>Martin Jay, <i>University of</i> <i>California, Berkeley</i></b></p> <p>"Bloch's <i>Heritage of Our Times</i> is a shocking expressionist excursion, developed in montage form, through the dialectics and unresolved contradictions of everyday experience and cultural manifestations of the early Nazi period in Germany. The work is a rich compendium of explosive insights into historical and cultural consciousness that force themselves into our times too."</p> <p><b>David Frisby, <i>London School of Economics</i></b></p>