{"product_id":"traces-ernst-bloch-9780804741194","title":"Traces","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ernst Bloch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804741190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804741194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2006 pg. 658","brand":"Ernst Bloch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981258391807,"sku":"9780804741194","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d657cb35-6163-4633-8470-0a41dae77a70.jpg?v=1683254531","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/traces-ernst-bloch-9780804741194","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}