"Paradigms for a Metaphorology may be read as a kind of beginner's guide to Blumenberg, a programmatic introduction to his vast and multifaceted oeuvre. Its brevity makes it an ideal point of entry for readers daunted by the sheer bulk of Blumenberg's later writings, or distracted by their profusion of historical detail. Paradigms expresses many of Blumenberg's key ideas with a directness, concision, and clarity he would rarely match elsewhere. What is more, because it served as a beginner s guide for its author as well, allowing him to undertake an initial survey of...
"Paradigms for a Metaphorology may be read as a kind of beginner's guide to Blumenberg, a programmatic introduction to his vast and multif...
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 two of his other great preoccupations: metaphors and anecdotes as non-philosophical forms of knowledge. Each of these short texts, sparkling with erudition and humor, is devoted to a peculiar leonine presence--or, in many cases, absence--in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and politics. From Ecclesiastes to the New Testament Apocrypha, Durer to Henri...
For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blu...
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 Hannah Arendt. Unpublished during his lifetime, this essay analyzes Freud's Moses and Monotheism (1939) and Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem...
In "Moses the Egyptian"--the centerpiece of Rigorism of Truth, the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg addresses two defining figures in the intellectu...
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 Hannah Arendt. Unpublished during his lifetime, this essay analyzes Freud's Moses and Monotheism (1939) and Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem...
In "Moses the Egyptian"--the centerpiece of Rigorism of Truth, the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg addresses two defining figures in the intellectu...
Die Verführbarkeit des Philosophen berichtet von unglücklichen, grotesken oder auch nur unerfreulichen Fällen, in denen Leben und Lehre der Denker nicht in Deckung zu bringen sind. Eine aktive Teilnahme an Zeitgeschichte und Politik war selten eine Stärke des Philosophen; dafür schlägt seine Schwäche, zum Instrument der Macht zu werden, um so unbarmherziger gegen ihn zurück. Verführbarkeit entsteht aber auch durch die Verlockung der Philosophie, Systeme zu schaffen, für Endgültigkeit sorgen zu wollen. Der Philosoph wird auf seiner rastlosen Suche zum Gefangenen, zum Opfer der von...
Die Verführbarkeit des Philosophen berichtet von unglücklichen, grotesken oder auch nur unerfreulichen Fällen, in denen Leben und Lehre der Denker ...
