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PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-100804741182

ISBN-139780804741187

eBay Product ID (ePID)50588183

Product Key Features

Number of Pages200 Pages

Publication NameTraces

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

SubjectGeneral, History & Surveys / Modern, Semiotics & Theory

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy

AuthorErnst Bloch

SeriesMeridian: Crossing Aesthetics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight16.2 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2005-033005

Reviews"This is an important addition to the corpus of Bloch's writings in English." -- Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, "This is an important addition to the corpus of Bloch's writings in English." — Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, "...this is a literary masterpiece. Overall, it is a must for anyone interested in Bloch's work."-CHOICE, "This is an important addition to the corpus of Bloch's writings in English." - Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, "...this is a literary masterpiece. Overall, it is a must for anyone interested in Bloch's work."--CHOICE, "...this is a literary masterpiece. Overall, it is a must for anyone interested in Bloch's work."—CHOICE

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal838/.91209

SynopsisWritten between 1910 and 1929, "Traces" is considered Ernst Bloch' s most important work next to "The Principle of Hope" and "The Spirit of Utopia," This book, which collects aphorisms, essays, stories, and anecdotes, enacts Bloch' s interest in showing how attention to " traces" -- to the marks people make or to natural marks-- can serve as a mode of philosophizing. In an elegant example of how the literary can become a privileged medium for philosophy, Bloch' s chief philosophical invention is to begin with what gives an observer pause-- what seems strange and astonishing. He then follows such traces into an awareness of the individual' s relations to himself or herself and to history, conceived as a thinking into the unknown, the " not yet, " and thus as utopian in essence. "Traces," a masterwork of twentieth-century philosophy, is the most modest and beautiful proof of Bloch' s utopian hermeneutics, taking as its source and its result the simplest, most familiar, and yet most striking stories and anecdotes., Written between 1910 and 1929, Traces is considered Ernst Bloch's most important work next to The Principle of Hope and The Spirit of Utopia . This book, which collects aphorisms, essays, stories, and anecdotes, enacts Bloch's interest in showing how attention to "traces"--to the marks people make or to natural marks--can serve as a mode of philosophizing. In an elegant example of how the literary can become a privileged medium for philosophy, Bloch's chief philosophical invention is to begin with what gives an observer pause--what seems strange and astonishing. He then follows such traces into an awareness of the individual's relations to himself or herself and to history, conceived as a thinking into the unknown, the "not yet," and thus as utopian in essence. Traces , a masterwork of twentieth-century philosophy, is the most modest and beautiful proof of Bloch's utopian hermeneutics, taking as its source and its result the simplest, most familiar, and yet most striking stories and anecdotes., "Traces," a masterwork of twentieth-century philosophy, is the most modest and beautiful proof of Bloch's utopian hermeneutics, taking as its source and its result the simplest, most familiar and yet most striking stories and anecdotes., Traces , a masterwork of twentieth-century philosophy, is the most modest and beautiful proof of Bloch's utopian hermeneutics, taking as its source and its result the simplest, most familiar and yet most striking stories and anecdotes.

LC Classification NumberPT2603