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Contributors to this special issue introduce one of Germany’s most eminent postwar philosophers to an English-speaking audience. As a theorist of metaphor and language, myth and reception, modernity and human…
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Alexander Waszynski
Hans Blumenberg did not formulate a theory of reading, but in his dissertation of 1946-47 he had already established a connection between reception and theory formation. This can be traced…
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Unter dem Titel Hans Blumenberg: Padagogische Lekturen erkunden die Autorinnen und Autoren Hans Blumenbergs Werk nach bildungsphilosophischen und erziehungswissenschaftlichen Problem- und Fragestellungen.
Hans Blumenberg
Une paradigmatique metaphorologique cherche a delimiter des champs a l'interieur desquels on peut supposer l'existence de metaphores absolues et a mettre a l'epreuve des criteres pour les reperer. Que ces…
Shipwreck with Spectator traces the evolution of the complex of metaphors related to the sea, to shipwreck, and to the role of the spectator in human culture from ancient Greece…
In this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of the philosophical roots of the modern world.
This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.
In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Lowith’s well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that…
Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg’s epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of…
Elizabeth Brient
Hans Blumenberg’s account of the transition of the world from medieval to modern, given in his 1966 work The Legitimacy of the Modern Age , has received wide attention. Elizabeth…
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Xander Kirke
This book investigates the writings of German intellectual historian and philosopher Hans Blumenberg. Rather than seeing myths in a pejorative sense, as primitive modes of thought that have been overcome…
History, Metaphors, and Fables collects the central writings by Hans Blumenberg and covers topics such as on the philosophy of language, metaphor theory, non-conceptuality, aesthetics, politics, and literary studies. This…
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Angus Nicholls
This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg’s theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the most important German theorist of myth of the…
An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, The Laughter of the Thracian Woman describes the reception history of an anecdote best…
For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg’s philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites…
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What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking that should be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can they be used by…
In this accessible collection of short meditations on various topics, Blumenberg works as a detective of ideas scouring the periphery of intellectual and philosophical history for clues-metaphors, gestures, anecdotes-essential to…
Andreas Klein
Die Konfrontation des Menschen mit der Ubermacht der Realitat ist in verschiedenen Facetten und Variationen ein wiederkehrendes Thema im Werk des Philosophen Hans Blumenbergs. Diese Ubermachtigkeit des Wirklichen verdichtet sich…
The Readability of the World represents Hans Blumenberg’s first extended demonstration of the metaphorological method he pioneered in Paradigms for a Metaphorology. For Blumenberg, metaphors are symptomatic of patterns of…
Sjoerd Griffioen
Sjoerd Griffioen investigates the polemics between Loewith, Blumenberg and Schmitt in the German secularization debate (1950’s-1980’s). ‘Secularization’ is revealed as a contested concept in ideological struggles over modernity and religion…
With the complexity of his artistic expression, Armin Mueller-Stahl is an exceptional figure in the art of the 21st century. The different artistic activities of the painter, musician, actor, and…
Andreas Kirchner
Dass sich jegliches Geschehen der operativ geschlossenen Verknupfung von Ereignissen verdankt, ist sicherlich die theorieasthetische Provokation der Moderne. Die Dynamik der Geschlossenheit wird als eine Theoriefigur ins Spiel gebracht, welche…
In Moses the Egyptian -the centerpiece of Rigorism of Truth, the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg addresses two defining figures in the intellectual history of the twentieth century: Sigmund Freud and…
This book of biblical scholarship explores the passion story in its four very distinct Gospel versions alongside its musical appropriation by Johann Sebastian Bach’s in his oratorio. It probes the…
