Traces

By: Ernst Bloch, Anthony A. Nassar (Translator)

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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.

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"...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

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Not Enough	p. 1
Sleeping	p. 1
Drawn Out	p. 1
Always in It	p. 2
Mingling	p. 2
Sing-Song	p. 2
Slight Change	p. 3
Lamp and Closet	p. 4
Learning Good Habits	p. 5
The "Mark!"	p. 5
Situation
The Poor	p. 9
Filth	p. 9
The Gift	p. 9
Different Needs	p. 10
Games, Regrettably	p. 10
The Useful Member	p. 14
Shaker of Strawberries	p. 15
Bread and Games	p. 15
Narrow-Minded Comrades	p. 16
Disturbing Whim	p. 17
Fate
Passing It Forward	p. 21
The Negro	p. 21
The Watershed	p. 22
No Face	p. 24
Comte de Mirabeau	p. 25
Rich Devil, Poor Devil	p. 29
The Kitten as David	p. 30
Triumphs of Misrecognition	p. 31
Scribe at the Mairie	p. 36
The Beautiful Appearance	p. 37
The Rococo of Fate	p. 39
Spirit Still Taking Shape	p. 42
The Motif of Parting	p. 51
Supernaturalism, Stupid and Improved	p. 56
Strange Homeland, Familiar Exile	p. 58
Pippa Passes	p. 59
The Long Gaze	p. 61
Reunion Without Connection	p. 62
The Muse of Restitution	p. 64
Raphael Without Hands	p. 66
Existence
Just Now	p. 71
Dark by Us	p. 71
The Fall into the Now	p. 72
The Spur of Work	p. 73
No Free Lunch	p. 76
Ten Years' Jail, Seven-Meter Train	p. 79
Silence and Mirrors	p. 80
Ways Not to Be Seen	p. 82
Imminent Boredom	p. 83
Moment and Image	p. 87
Potemkin's Signature	p. 88
Incognito to Oneself	p. 89
Motifs of Concealment	p. 91
Just Knock	p. 97
The Corner of the Blanket	p. 97
Short Excursion	p. 98
Terror and Hope	p. 99
Excursus: Human and Wax Figure	p. 101
Nearby: Inn of the Insane	p. 105
Tableau with Curve	p. 106
Some Patterns from the Left Side	p. 108
The Twice-Disappearing Frame	p. 113
The Motif of the Door	p. 116
Things
Half Good	p. 123
The Next Tree	p. 123
Flower and Unflower	p. 124
The Leyden Jar	p. 124
The First Locomotive	p. 124
The Urban Peasant	p. 125
The House of Day	p. 126
Montages of a February Evening	p. 128
An Odd Flaneur	p. 130
Eating Olives Precisely	p. 132
Making a Point	p. 133
The Reverse of Things	p. 134
Greeting and Appearance	p. 136
Motifs of Temptation	p. 140
No Man's Land	p. 147
A Russian Fairy Tale?	p. 149
The Clever Way Out	p. 151
Disappointment with Amusement	p. 154
The Invisible Hand	p. 155
Tales of White Magic	p. 159
Wonder	p. 169
The Mountain	p. 171
Dead and Usable	p. 171
The Pearl	p. 172
Notes	p. 175
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