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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Blumenberg was one of those rare figures, like Robert Burton or Goethe himself, who was able to read widely across disciplines and time periods while maintaining a detailed sense of the internal conflicts and complexities of each particular domain.” * David Auerbach *
Table of ContentsLions
Sympathy for the Lion
Homeopathy
The Elephant, Not the Lion
The Absence About the Lion
Fiesco’s Lion
Impeded Lions
One Species of Leonine Absence
Ecclesiastes’ Dead Lion
The Absence About the Lion: Morgenstern
The Absent Lion
Preserved from a Lion
The Baptized Lion
The Renewed Absence of Leonine Thought
Two Different Measures of a Lion’s Hunger
The Cares of the Lioness
The Fearful Lion
The Dreamt-Out Dream of the Lion’s Absence
In Defence of the Absent Lion
Delayed Effects of Absent Lions
The Absence About the Sea Lion
The Polemical Lion
The Presence of a Lion—As If He Were Absent
The Remedy for the Lion’s Return
Sea Lions—A Misunderstanding
The Lion’s Absence for the Elephant
The Absence About the Lion: St Jerome in His Study with an Hourglass
Conciliatory Expulsion of the Lion
The Liberating Power of the Truth
The False Lion of the Bacchae
Felicitous Animal Metaphor
Tonio Kröger’s Lions
Notes to the English Edition
