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Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer (1979), que ahora ofrecemos con el título Naufragio con espectador, es un texto central en la trayectoria de Blumenberg. Analiza la metáfora del naufragio, a través de la cual han entendido los hombres su condición y sus azares. Blumenberg se ocupa de los orígenes de la metáfora y presta especial atención a su figura en el marco de la Ilustración y el Romanticismo, momentos en que adquiere su sentido más radical....
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Aunque alcanza en Platón una formulación magistral, el mito de la caverna es, como estudia Blumenberg, una de las metáforas fundamentales de la historia humana y de su comprensión de la existencia. El mito no puede reducirse a lo que dice o puede ser traducido en reflexiones y conceptos. Ofrece una imagen del mundo y del ser humano en el mundo, en el desarrollo del tiempo que, con el mito, hace suyo. Es un mito del inicio, pero también del existir...
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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 Unpublished during his lifetime, this essay analyzes Freud's Moses and Monotheism (1939) and Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), and discovers in both a principled rigidity that turns into recklessness because it is blind to the...
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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 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...
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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...
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