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Spanning from the biblical account of creation to modern genetics, Blumenberg's book can be understood as an intense effort to refract the history of ideas through the lens of a fundamental metaphor. In detailed individual analyses of relevant historical texts, he explains the metaphor's various assignments of meaning from the intellectual, sociocultural, and biographical contexts in which it is deployed.

* Rhetorica *

Learning about Blumenberg's metaphorology as well as the stars of intellectual history has been made possible for Anglophones by the extraordinary translation skills of Robert Savage and David Roberts.

* Los Angeles Review of Books *

The Readability of the World

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    A Hardback by Hans Blumenberg, Robert Savage, David Roberts

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 15/12/2022
      ISBN13: 9781501766619, 978-1501766619
      ISBN10: 1501766619
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      Linguistics Philosophy of language Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      Spanning from the biblical account of creation to modern genetics, Blumenberg's book can be understood as an intense effort to refract the history of ideas through the lens of a fundamental metaphor. In detailed individual analyses of relevant historical texts, he explains the metaphor's various assignments of meaning from the intellectual, sociocultural, and biographical contexts in which it is deployed.

      * Rhetorica *

      Learning about Blumenberg's metaphorology as well as the stars of intellectual history has been made possible for Anglophones by the extraordinary translation skills of Robert Savage and David Roberts.

      * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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