History, Metaphors, Fables

A Hans Blumenberg Reader

Hans Blumenberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

624 Seiten

2020
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library (Verlag)
978-1-5017-3282-9 (ISBN)

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History, Metaphors, 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 an overview of his thematic and stylistic range over four decades. Blumenberg's early philosophy of technology becomes tangible, as does his critique of linguistic perfectibility and conceptual thought, his theory of history as successive concepts of reality", his anthropology, or his studies of literature. History, Metaphors, Fables allows readers to discover a master thinker whose role in the German intellectual post-war scene can hardly be overestimated.

Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996) was one of the most important German philosophers of the twentieth century. An intellectual historian as well, he created the concept of metaphorology, which states that the limits of conceptual thought can be overcome by studying the world-views hidden in metaphors. Florian Fuchs is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Hannes Bajohr is a Research Fellow at the Media Studies Department at the University of Basel. Joe Paul Kroll is a freelance translator, editor, and writer.

1. The Linguistic Realityof Philosophy (1946/1947)
2. World Pictures and World Models (1961)
3. "Secularization": Critique of a Category ofHistorical Illegitimacy (1964)
4. The Concept of Realityand the Theory of the State(1968/1969)
5. Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality(1974)
6. Light as a Metaphorfor Truth: At the PreliminaryStage of Philosophical Concept Formation (1957)
7. Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology(1960)
8. An Anthropological Approach to the ContemporarySignificance of Rhetoric(1971)
9. Observations Drawn from Metaphors(1971)
10. Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality (1979)
11. Theory of Nonconceptuality (circa 1975, excerpt)
12. The Relationship between Nature and Technologyas a Philosophical Problem(1951)
13. "Imitation of Nature":: Towarda Prehistory ofthe Idea of the Creative Being (1957)
14. Phenomenological Aspects on Life-Worldand Technization (1963)
15. Socrates and the objet ambigu: Paul Valéry'sDiscussion of the Ontology of the AestheticObject and Its Tradition (1964)
16. The Essential Ambiguity of the AestheticObject (1966)
17. Speech Situation and Immanent Poetics (1966)
18. The Absolute Father(1952/1953)
19. The Mythos and Ethos of Americain the Workof William Faulkner (1958)
20. The Concept of Realityand the Possibility of theNovel (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 Centuryafterthe Sailing of the Fram (1993)

Erscheinungsdatum	09.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	Signale TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation
Übersetzer	Hannes Bajohr, Florian Fuchs, Joe Paul Kroll
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1361 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5017-3282-X / 150173282X
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-3282-9 / 9781501732829
Zustand	Neuware