| Traces Contributor(s): Bloch, Ernst (Author), Nassar, Anthony A. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804741190 ISBN-13: 9780804741194 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: " ...this is a literary masterpiece. Overall, it is a must for anyone interested in Bloch' s work." -- CHOICE |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 838.912 |
| LCCN: 2005033005 |
| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6.1" W x 8.98" (0.60 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |