History, metaphors, fables a Hans Blumenberg reader Hans Blumenberg ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Hannes Bajohr, Florian Fuchs, and Joe Paul Kroll

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"The philosopher Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) has, in the quarter-century since his death, become a modern classic in his native Germany, making him one of the most important philosophers of the post-war period. This collection offers an invaluable guide, containing both his most important philosophical essays as well as selections of his non-academic writings that appeared in newspapers and cultural magazines. The topics covered include modernity and secularization, the philosophy of history, the history of science and technology, language philosophy and rhetoricity, aesthetics and literary theory, philosophical anthropology, theology, and mythical thought"-- Provided by publisher

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Intro -- History, Metaphors, Fables -- Contents -- Hans Blumenberg: An Introduction / Hannes Bajohr, Florian Fuchs, and Joe Paul Kroll -- 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

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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z

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) -- Part III. Nature, Technology, and Aesthetics -- 11. Theory of Nonconceptuality (circa 1975, excerpt) -- 12. The Relationship between Nature and Technology as a Philosophical Problem (1951)

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