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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