{"product_id":"traces-paperback-1","title":"Traces - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErnst Bloch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnthony A. Nassar\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten between 1910 and 1929, \u003ci\u003eTraces\u003c\/i\u003e is considered Ernst Bloch's most important work next to \u003ci\u003eThe Principle of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTraces\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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.\u003cbr\u003eTraces, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e..\".this is a literary masterpiece. Overall, it is a must for anyone interested in Bloch's work.\"--CHOICE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eErnst Bloch (1885-1977) was one of the great philosophers and political intellectuals of twentieth-century Germany. Among his works to have appeared in English are \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit of Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford University Press, 2000), \u003ci\u003eLiterary Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford University Press, 1998), \u003ci\u003eThe Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), and \u003ci\u003eThe Principle of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e (1986).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.98 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131175473287,"sku":"9780804741194","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/001e93467e0d394f2c1072a610a1ea27.webp?v=1732616910","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/traces-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}