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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 landmark volume demonstrates Blumenberg's intellectual breadth and gives...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Blumenberg, Hans,
MitwirkendeR:
Bajohr, Hannes,
Fuchs, Florian,
Kroll, Joe Paul,
TeilnehmendeR:
Bajohr, Hannes.
Fuchs, Florian.
Kroll, Joe Paul.
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation
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Physical Description:1 online resource (624 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Hans Blumenberg: An Introduction
  • Part I. History, Secularization, and Reality
  • 1. The Linguistic Reality of Philosophy (1946/1947)
  • 2. World Pictures and World Models (1961)
  • 3. "Secularization": Critique of a Category of Historical Illegitimacy (1964)
  • 4. The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State (1968/1969)
  • 5. Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality (1974)
  • Part II. Metaphors, Rhetoric, and Nonconceptuality
  • 6. Light as a Metaphor for Truth: At the Preliminary Stage of Philosophical Concept Formation (1957)
  • 7. Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology (1960)
  • 8. An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric (1971)
  • 9. Observations Drawn from Metaphors (1971)
  • 10. Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality (1979)
  • 11. Theory of Nonconceptuality (circa 1975, excerpt)
  • Part III. Nature, Technology, and Aesthetics
  • 12. The Relationship between Nature and Technology as a Philosophical Problem (1951)
  • 13. "Imitation of Nature": Toward a Prehistory of the Idea of the Creative Being (1957)
  • 14. Phenomenological Aspects on Life-World and Technization (1963)
  • 15. Socrates and the objet ambigu: Paul Valéry's Discussion of the Ontology of the Aesthetic Object and Its Tradition (1964)
  • 16. The Essential Ambiguity of the Aesthetic Object (1966)
  • 17. Speech Situation and Immanent Poetics (1966)
  • Part IV. Fables, Anecdotes, and the Novel
  • 18. The Absolute Father (1952/1953)
  • 19. The Mythos and Ethos of America in the Work of William Faulkner (1958)
  • 20. The Concept of Reality and the Possibility of the Novel (1964)
  • 21. Pensiveness (1980
  • 22. Moments of Goethe (1982)
  • 23. Beyond the Edge of Reality: Three Short Essays (1983)
  • 24. Of Nonunderstanding: Glosses on Three Fables (1984)
  • 25. Unknown Aesopica: From Newly Found Fables (1985)
  • 26. Advancing into Eternal Silence: A Century after the Sailing of the Fram (1993)
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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