Paradigms for a Metaphorology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradigms for a Metaphorology write by Hans Blumenberg. This book was released on 2011-04-27. Paradigms for a Metaphorology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and indifferences that regulate an epoch than their carefully elaborated systems of thought? In Paradigms for a Metaphorology, originally published in 1960 and here made available for the first time in English translation, Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) approaches these questions by examining the relationship between metaphors and concepts. Blumenberg argues for the existence of "absolute metaphors" that cannot be translated back into conceptual language. "Absolute metaphors" answer the supposedly naïve, theoretically unanswerable questions whose relevance lies quite simply in the fact that they cannot be brushed aside, since we do not pose them ourselves but find them already posed in the ground of our existence. They leap into a void that concepts are unable to fill. An afterword by the translator, Robert Savage, positions the book in the intellectual context of its time and explains its continuing importance for work in the history of ideas.
Paradigms for a Metaphorology of the Cosmos
Paradigms for a Metaphorology of the Cosmos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradigms for a Metaphorology of the Cosmos write by Alberto Fragio. This book was released on 2015. Paradigms for a Metaphorology of the Cosmos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Shipwreck With Spectator
Shipwreck With Spectator - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shipwreck With Spectator write by Hans Blumenberg. This book was released on 1997. Shipwreck With Spectator available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This elegant essay exemplifies Blumenberg's ideas about the ability of the historical study of metaphor to illuminate essential aspects of being human. Originally published in the same year as his monumental Work on Myth, 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 to modern times. The sea is one of humanity's oldest metaphors for life, and a sea journey, Blumenberg observes, has often stood for our journey through life. We all know the role that shipwrecks can play in this journey, and at some level we have all played witness to others' wrecks, standing in safety and knowing that there is nothing we can do to help, yet fixed comfortably or uncomfortably in our ambiguous role as spectator. Through Blumenberg's seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of letters, from ancient texts through nineteenth-century reminiscences and modern speeches, we see layer upon layer revealed in the meanings humans have given to these metaphors; and in this way we begin to understand what metaphors can do that more straightforward modes of expression cannot. This edition of Shipwreck with Spectator also includes "Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality", an essay that recounts the evolution of Blumenberg's ideas about metaphorology in the years following his early manifesto "Paradigms for a Metaphorology".
History, Metaphors, Fables
History, Metaphors, Fables - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History, Metaphors, Fables write by Hans Blumenberg. This book was released on 2020-06-15. History, Metaphors, Fables available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 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.
Care Crosses the River
Care Crosses the River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Care Crosses the River write by Hans Blumenberg. This book was released on 2010. Care Crosses the River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 grasping human finitude.
