{"product_id":"paradigms-for-a-metaphorology-9780801449253","title":"Paradigms for a Metaphorology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking that should be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can they be used by philosophers to indicate the attitudes that regulate an epoch?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadigms for a Metaphorology\u003c\/i\u003e is a model of scholarly translation. Savage's handling of citations and sources is scrupulous and thorough.... And he provides judicious explanatory notes that work in conjunction with the afterword and Blumenberg's own notes to guide readers through Blumenberg's own reading and career. Finally, and most importantly, his English rendering is consistently accurate while also being, in the context of translations of German philosophy, remarkably readable.... In short, readers approaching Blumenberg's reflections on metaphor through the English language could not ask for a more reliable and helpful guide than this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e -- David Adams * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Blumenberg: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: History, Secularization, and Reality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Linguistic Reality of Philosophy (1946\/1947)\u003cbr\u003e 2. World Pictures and World Models (1961)\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Secularization\": Critique of a Category of Hisotrical Illegitimacy (1964)\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State (1968\/1969)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality (1974)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Metaphors, Rhetoric, and Nonconceptuality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Light as a Metaphor for Truth: At the Preliminary Stage of Philosophical Concept Formation (1957)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology (1960)\u003cbr\u003e 8. An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance 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 \u003cb\u003ePart III: Nature, Technology, and Asthetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Relationship between Nature and Technology as a Philosophical Problem (1951)\u003cbr\u003e 13. \"Imitation of Nature\": Toward a Prehistory of the Idea of the Creative Being (1957)\u003cbr\u003e 14. Phenomenological Aspects on Life-World and Technization (1963)\u003cbr\u003e 15. Socrates and the objet ambigu: Paul Valery's Discussion of the Ontology of the Aesthetic Object and Its Tradition (1964)\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Essential Ambiguity of the Aesthetic Object (1966)\u003cbr\u003e 17. Speech Situation and Immanent Poetics (1966)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Fables, Anecdotes, and the Novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Absolute Father (1952\/1953)\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Mythos and Ethos of America in the Work of William Faulkner (1958)\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Concept of Reality and the Possibility of the Novel (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 Century after the Sailing of the Fram (1993)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405134602583,"sku":"9780801449253","price":32.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801449253.jpg?v=1730488830","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/paradigms-for-a-metaphorology-9780801449253","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}