false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg 344005 5 <div>Written between 1910 and 1929, <i>Traces</i> is considered Ernst Bloch&#8217;s most important work next to <i>The Principle of Hope</i> and <i>The Spirit of Utopia</i>. This book, which collects aphorisms, essays, stories, and anecdotes, enacts Bloch&#8217;s interest in showing how attention to &#8220;traces&#8221;&#8212;to the marks people make or to natural marks&#8212;can serve as a mode of philosophizing. In an elegant example of how the literary can become a privileged medium for philosophy, Bloch&#8217;s chief philosophical invention is to begin with what gives an observer pause&#8212;what seems strange and astonishing. He then follows such traces into an awareness of the individual&#8217;s relations to himself or herself and to history, conceived as a thinking into the unknown, the &#8220;not yet,&#8221; and thus as utopian in essence.<br><br><i>Traces</i>, a masterwork of twentieth-century philosophy, is the most modest and beautiful proof of Bloch&#8217;s utopian hermeneutics, taking as its source and its result the simplest, most familiar, and yet most striking stories and anecdotes.<br><br></div> 334346 1978 Traces (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) total:7|5:3|4:4| 7 31 15 0 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 0 0 false Sun Nov 29 11:35:24 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 11:35:24 -0800 2009 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 0 0 false Thu Sep 24 18:28:24 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 18:28:24 -0700 2009 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 0 0 false Thu Sep 17 12:53:41 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 12:53:41 -0700 2009 5132659 0804741182 9780804741187 0 0 4.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5132659.Traces 0 0 false Sat Jun 06 20:34:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 20:34:00 -0700 2009 6233536 3518010549 9783518010549 0 0 4.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6233536.Spuren 0 0 false Tue Apr 21 06:23:17 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 06:23:17 -0700 2009 6233536 3518010549 9783518010549 0 0 4.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6233536.Spuren 0 0 false Mon Feb 09 04:41:54 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 04:41:54 -0800 2009 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 4 0 false Fri Jan 30 10:06:26 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 10:06:26 -0800 2009 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 4 0 false Sun Nov 30 06:13:14 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 06:13:20 -0800 2008 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 5 0 false Mon Aug 04 15:11:50 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 15:11:55 -0700 2008 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 0 0 false Thu Jul 10 18:56:38 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 18:56:38 -0700 2008 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 4 0 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Feb 10 11:20:54 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 11:21:08 -0800 2008 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 0 0 false Tue Jun 05 05:50:55 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 05:51:08 -0700 2007 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 03 00:39:05 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 00:39:18 -0700 2007 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 5 0 false Wed Mar 14 15:37:41 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 14 15:37:41 -0700 2007 344005 0804741190 9780804741194 7 0 4.43 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173910096m/344005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344005.Traces 4 0 false Wed Mar 14 15:08:20 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 14 15:08:20 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=344005