From ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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About this Item
Quarto. 278pp. Original tan cloth with red lettering and borders on front cover and spine. Lacking free front endpaper. Written between 1910 and 1929, Spuren (Traces) is considered Ernst Blochâ 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 Blochâ s interest in showing how attention to â tracesâ â "to the marks people make or to natural marksâ "can serve as a mode of philosophizing. In an elegant example of how the literary can become a privileged medium for philosophy, Blochâ s chief philosophical invention is to begin with what gives an observer pauseâ "what seems strange and astonishing. He then follows such traces into an awareness of the individualâ s relations to himself or herself and to history, conceived as a thinking into the unknown, the â not yet,â and thus as utopian in essence. Spuren, a masterwork of twentieth-century philosophy, is the most modest and beautiful proof of Blochâ s utopian hermeneutics, taking as its source and its result the simplest, most familiar, and yet most striking stories and anecdotes. Some age wear on binding with some water staining and age-toning on covers and spine. Hinges starting. Sporadic and minor foxing throughout. Text in German. Binding in overall fair, interior in good to very good condition. About the author: Ernst Simon Bloch (July 8, 1885 â " August 4, 1977) was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx. He was also interested in music (notably Gustav Mahler) and art (notably expressionism). He established friendships with Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W. Adorno. Bloch's work focuses on the concept that in a utopian human world where oppression and exploitation have been eliminated there will always be a truly ideological revolutionary force. Seller Inventory # 25575
Bibliographic Details
Title: Spuren (Traces)
Publisher: Paul Cassirer Verlag, Berlin
Publication Date: 1930
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: First edition.
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