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Traces / Ernst Bloch ; translated by Anthony A. Nassar.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bloch, Ernst, 1885-1977.
- Series:
- Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
- Meridian, crossing aesthetics
- Standardized Title:
- Spuren. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Physical Description:
- xii, 180 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Not Enough 1
- Sleeping 1
- Drawn Out 1
- Always in It 2
- Mingling 2
- Sing-Song 2
- Slight Change 3
- Lamp and Closet 4
- Learning Good Habits 5
- The "Mark!" 5
- Situation
- The Poor 9
- Filth 9
- The Gift 9
- Different Needs 10
- Games, Regrettably 10
- The Useful Member 14
- Shaker of Strawberries 15
- Bread and Games 15
- Narrow-Minded Comrades 16
- Disturbing Whim 17
- Fate
- Passing It Forward 21
- The Negro 21
- The Watershed 22
- No Face 24
- Comte de Mirabeau 25
- Rich Devil, Poor Devil 29
- The Kitten as David 30
- Triumphs of Misrecognition 31
- Scribe at the Mairie 36
- The Beautiful Appearance 37
- The Rococo of Fate 39
- Spirit Still Taking Shape 42
- The Motif of Parting 51
- Supernaturalism, Stupid and Improved 56
- Strange Homeland, Familiar Exile 58
- Pippa Passes 59
- The Long Gaze 61
- Reunion Without Connection 62
- The Muse of Restitution 64
- Raphael Without Hands 66
- Existence
- Just Now 71
- Dark by Us 71
- The Fall into the Now 72
- The Spur of Work 73
- No Free Lunch 76
- Ten Years' Jail, Seven-Meter Train 79
- Silence and Mirrors 80
- Ways Not to Be Seen 82
- Imminent Boredom 83
- Moment and Image 87
- Potemkin's Signature 88
- Incognito to Oneself 89
- Motifs of Concealment 91
- Just Knock 97
- The Corner of the Blanket 97
- Short Excursion 98
- Terror and Hope 99
- Excursus: Human and Wax Figure 101
- Nearby: Inn of the Insane 105
- Tableau with Curve 106
- Some Patterns from the Left Side 108
- The Twice-Disappearing Frame 113
- The Motif of the Door 116
- Things
- Half Good 123
- The Next Tree 123
- Flower and Unflower 124
- The Leyden Jar 124
- The First Locomotive 124
- The Urban Peasant 125
- The House of Day 126
- Montages of a February Evening 128
- An Odd Flaneur 130
- Eating Olives Precisely 132
- Making a Point 133
- The Reverse of Things 134
- Greeting and Appearance 136
- Motifs of Temptation 140
- Appendix No Man's Land 147
- A Russian Fairy Tale? 149
- The Clever Way Out 151
- Disappointment with Amusement 154
- The Invisible Hand 155
- Tales of White Magic 159
- Wonder 169
- The Mountain 171
- Dead and Usable 171
- The Pearl 172.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180).
- ISBN:
- 0804741182
- 0804741190
- OCLC:
- 62324742
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