{"product_id":"history-metaphors-fables-9781501732829","title":"History Metaphors Fables","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory, Metaphors, and Fables\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eHistory, Metaphors, Fables\u003c\/i\u003e allows readers to discover a master thinker whose role in the German intellectual post-war scene can hardly be overestimated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a kind of belated debutante ball for Hans Blumenberg, inviting a new audience to view Blumenberg not only at his entrance to scholarly life in the 1940s but also to key moments in his ascent of the rarefied staircase of German intellectual history, leading to rooms unintended for commoners.\u003c\/p\u003e * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Reader provides us with an impressive cross-sectional sample of important essays by Blumenberg, essays that will make his ideas available in a serious form, but without the months-long labors necessary for any reader to make his or her way through the six to eight hundred page tomes that constitute the cornerstones of Blumenberg's approach.\u003c\/p\u003e * PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark contribution to English-language work on Blumenberg. It gathers in a single paperback volume Blumenberg's most important essays, many of which also appear here in English for the first time. This will allow Blumenberg's thought to be read, cited, taught, and studied in English-speaking contexts on an entirely different scale and in entirely different ways than before... Here, in pieces intended for solo publication that range in length from four to approximately forty pages, the Reader presents a version of Blumenberg's thought that is sharper, spryer, more focused and more accessible than those that have appeared before.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Germanic Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBajohr, Fuchs, and Kroll have gathered, in the best translation this great prose stylist has received, fundamental short texts by Blumenberg that were the seeds of his later encyclopedic volumes\u003c\/p\u003e * Common Knowledge *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBound to provide much needed nourishment, \u003ci\u003eHistory, Metaphors, Fables \u003c\/i\u003eprovides readers with a sample broad enough to appreciate the prolific scope of the author's interests, in subject matters and genres alike, yet reasoned enough to prevent a loss of bearings. The resulting compilation should enable inquiries for guiding threads across a vast and variegated corpus.\u003c\/p\u003e * Contributions to the History of Concepts *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Linguistic Realityof Philosophy (1946\/1947)\u003cbr\u003e 2. World Pictures and World Models (1961)\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Secularization\": Critique of a Category ofHistorical Illegitimacy (1964)\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Concept of Realityand the Theory of the State(1968\/1969)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality(1974)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Light as a Metaphorfor Truth: At the PreliminaryStage of Philosophical Concept Formation (1957)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology(1960)\u003cbr\u003e 8. An Anthropological Approach to the ContemporarySignificance of Rhetoric(1971)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Observations Drawn from Metaphors(1971)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality (1979)\u003cbr\u003e 11. Theory of Nonconceptuality (circa 1975, excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Relationship between Nature and Technologyas a Philosophical Problem(1951)\u003cbr\u003e 13. \"Imitation of Nature\":: Towarda Prehistory ofthe Idea of the Creative Being (1957)\u003cbr\u003e 14. Phenomenological Aspects on Life-Worldand Technization (1963)\u003cbr\u003e 15. Socrates and the objet ambigu: Paul Valéry'sDiscussion of the Ontology of the AestheticObject and Its Tradition (1964)\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Essential Ambiguity of the AestheticObject (1966)\u003cbr\u003e 17. Speech Situation and Immanent Poetics (1966)\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Absolute Father(1952\/1953)\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Mythos and Ethos of Americain the Workof William Faulkner (1958)\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Concept of Realityand the Possibility of theNovel (1964)\u003cbr\u003e 21. Pensiveness (1980)\u003cbr\u003e 22. Moments of Goethe (1982)\u003cbr\u003e 23. Beyond the Edge of Reality: Three Short Essays (1983)\u003cbr\u003e 24. Of Nonunderstanding: Glosses on Three Fables (1984)\u003cbr\u003e 25. Unknown Aesopica: From Newly Found Fables (1985)\u003cbr\u003e 26. Advancing into Eternal Silence: A Centuryafterthe Sailing of the Fram (1993)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409334935895,"sku":"9781501732829","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501732829.jpg?v=1730506461","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/history-metaphors-fables-9781501732829","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}