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Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) was one of the great philosophers and political intellectuals of twentieth-century Germany. Among his works to have appeared in English are The Spirit of Utopia (Stanford University Press, 2000), Literary Essays (Stanford University Press, 1998), The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays (1987), and The Principle of Hope (1986).

• @fmct:Contents* @toc2:Not Enough*000 Sleeping000 Drawn out000 Always in It000 Mingling000 Sing-Song000 Slight Change000 Lamp and Closet000 Learning Good Habits000 The "Mark!"000 @toc1:Situation @toc2:The Poor000 Filth000 The Gift000 Different Needs*000 Games, Regrettably000 The Useful Member000 Shaker of Strawberries*000 Bread and Games000 Narrow-Minded Comrades*000 Disturbing Whim000 @toc1:Fate @toc2:Passing It Forward000 The Negro000 The Watershed000 No Face000 Comte de Mirabeau000 Rich Devil, Poor Devil000 The Kitten as David*000 Triumphs of Misrecognition000 Scribe at the Mairie*000 The Beautiful Appearance000 The Rococo of Fate000 Spirit Still Taking Shape000 The Motif of Parting000 Supernaturalism, Stupid and Improved*000 Strange Homeland, Familiar Exile*000 Pippa Passes000 The Long Gaze000 Reunion Without Connection000 The Muse of Restitution000 Raphael Without Hands000 @toc1:Existence @toc2:Just Now000 Dark by Us000 The Fall into the Now000 The Spur of Work000 No Free Lunch*000 Ten Years' Jail, Seven-Meter Train*000 Silence and Mirrors000 Ways Not to Be Seen000 Imminent Boredom000 Moment and Image000 Potemkin's Signature000 Incognito to Oneself*000 Motifs of Concealment000 Just Knock000 The Corner of the Blanket000 Short Excursion000 Terror and Hope000 Excursus: Human and Wax Figure000 Nearby: Inn of the Insane000 Tableau with Curve*000 Some Patterns from the Left Side000 The Twice-Disappearing Frame000 The Motif of the Door000 @toc1:Things @toc2:Half Good000 The Next Tree000 Flower and Unflower*000 The Leyden Jar000 The First Locomotive000 The Urban Peasant000 The House of Day000 Montages of a February Evening*000 An Odd Fl'neur000 Eating Olives Precisely*000 Making a Point*000 The Reverse of Things000 Greeting and Appearance000 Motifs of Temptation000 Appendix: No Man's Land000 A Russian Fairy Tale?*000 The Clever Way out000 Disappointment with Amusement*000 The Invisible Hand000 Tales of White Magic000 Wonder000 The Mountain000 Dead and Usable*000 The Pearl*000 @toc4:Notes000

"...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