Hans Blumenberg

Den tyske filosofen Hans Blumenberg kritiserer i denne boka Platon og Descartes, og fremhever de mytiske og metaforiske fortellingene som sentrale i menneskets liv og tenkning. Boken egner seg for alle som studerer og utforsker språkets uttrykksmuligheter fra et filosofisk, idéhistorisk, psykologisk eller litteraturteoretisk ståsted. Oversatt til norsk av Eivind Lilleskjæret og Tor Ivar Østmoe.Den tyske filosofen Hans Blumenberg (1920 – 1996) analyserer i dette verket metaforens paradigmer. I en levende historisk gjennomgang anskueliggjør han den filosofiske striden om sannhet og vitenskap kan uttrykkes i ”rene” begreper, eller om man må ty til ”besudlende” billedspråk og retorikk. Metafor og tenkning Han får oss til å løfte blikket opp mot de ”absolutte metaforer”, bilder og bildespråk som ikke kan reduseres til begreper, og som representerer menneskets grunnleggende redskaper for å ordne og utholde verden.Boken egner seg for alle som studerer og utforsker språkets uttrykksmuligheter fra et filosofisk, idéhistorisk, psykologisk eller litteraturteoretisk ståsted. Verket Paradigmen zu einer Metaforologie fra 1960 er et av Hans Blumenbergs mest sentrale essays og foreligger for første gang på norsk i oversettelse av Eivind Lilleskjæret og Tor Ivar Østmoe. Nr. 40 i Cappelens upopulære skrifter.

Une paradigmatique metaphorologique cherche a delimiter des champs a l'interieur desquels on peut supposer l'existence de metaphores absolues et a mettre a l'epreuve des criteres pour les reperer. Que ces metaphores soient appelees absolues signifie seulement qu'elles resistent a la pretention terminologique, qu'elles ne peuvent pas etre resorbees dans la conceptualite, non pas qu'une metaphore ne puisse pas etre remplacee ou plutot representee ou corrigee par une autre metaphore, plus precise. Par consequent, les metaphores absolues ont elles aussi une histoire. Elles ont de l'histoire dans un sens encore plus radical que les concepts, parce que la mutation historique d'une metaphore fait apparaitre la metacinetique des horizons de sens et des manieres de voir historiquement determinees a l'interieur desquels les concepts connaissent des modifications. Par ce rapport d'implication, la relation de la metaphorologie a l'histoire des concepts se definit comme une relation d'auxiliarite: la metaphorologie cherche a atteindre le soubassement de la pensee, le bouillon de culture des cristal-lisations systematiques, mais elle entend egalement faire prendre conscience avec quelle audace l'esprit s'anticipe lui-meme dans ses images et comment dans l'audace de la conjecture s'ebauche son histoire .

Shipwreck with Spectator traces the evolution of the complex of metaphors related to the sea, to shipwreck, and to the role of the spectator in human culture from ancient Greece to modern times.This elegant essay exemplifies Blumenberg's ideas about the ability of the historical study of metaphor to illuminate essential aspects of being human. Originally published in the same year as his monumental Work on Myth, Shipwreck with Spectator traces the evolution of the complex of metaphors related to the sea, to shipwreck, and to the role of the spectator in human culture from ancient Greece to modern times. The sea is one of humanity's oldest metaphors for life, and a sea journey, Blumenberg observes, has often stood for our journey through life. We all know the role that shipwrecks can play in this journey, and at some level we have all played witness to others' wrecks, standing in safety and knowing that there is nothing we can do to help, yet fixed comfortably or uncomfortably in our ambiguous role as spectator. Through Blumenberg's seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of letters, from ancient texts through nineteenth-century reminiscences and modern speeches, we see layer upon layer revealed in the meaning humans have given to these metaphors; and in this way we begin to understand what metaphors can do that more straightforward modes of expression cannot. This edition of Shipwreck with Spectator also includes "Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality," an essay that recounts the evolution of Blumenberg's ideas about metaphorology in the years following his early manifesto "Paradigms for a Metaphorology."

This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. It provides an important corrective to the view of science as an autonomous enterprise and presents a new account of the history of interpretations of the significance of the heavens for man.This book is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy

In this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of the philosophical roots of the modern world. Work on Myth is in five parts. The first two analyze the characteristics of myth and the stages in the West's work on myth, including long discussions of such authors as Freud, Joyce, Cassirer, and ValA (c)ry. The latter three parts present a comprehensive account of the history of the Prometheus myth, from Hesiod and Aeschylus to Gide and Kafka. This section includes a detailed analysis of Goethe's lifelong confrontation with the Prometheus myth, which is a unique synthesis of "psychobiography" and history of ideas.Work on Myth is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

"Plötzlich kommt einer", schrieb Frank Schirrmacher 1987 in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung zur Erstveröffentlichung dieses Bandes des Philosophen Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) in der Bibliothek Suhrkamp, "und erzählt ganz neue, abenteuerliche und poetische Geschichten. ... Wir werden künftig, wenn wir von den führenden Schriftstellern des Landes reden, auch den Namen Blumenberg erwähnen müssen."

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Loewith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an internal logic that ultimately expresses human choices and is legitimized by human self-assertion, by man's responsibility for his own fate.

Band 1: Die Zweideutigkeit des Himmels. Eröffnung der Möglichkeit eines Kopernikus. Band 2: Typologie der frühen Wirkungen. Der Stillstand des Himmels und der Fortgang der Zeit. Band 3: Der kopernikanische Komparativ. Die kopernikanische Optik