Heritage of Our Times
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991 [first US edition]/ 1962 [revised and enlarged edition]/ 1935.
Octavo, xiv, 377 pages.
Papered boards; corners a trifle bumped; head and foot of the spine slightly sunned; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper.
Published in UK and USA for the first time in English, translated by Neville and Stephen Plaice. Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) 'was a German philosopher and cultural critic who is mostly credited for renewing the interest in utopia and for mediating between the radical philosophy of emancipation, non-dogmatic religious thought, analysis of mass culture, and new aesthetic forms, notably those of Expressionism. His books ... contributed to a particular form of critical theory [which] made him quite popular both in academic and non-academic circles. Bloch was an important voice among the intelligentsia of Weimar Germany and then, for a short period after the Second World war, the leading philosopher of the Eastern Germany' ('Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy' website).
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