The Readability of the World / signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation (PDF)
- Lastschrift, Kreditkarte, Paypal, Rechnung
- Kostenloser tolino webreader
The Readability of the World represents Hans Blumenberg's first extended demonstration of the metaphorological method he pioneered in Paradigms for a Metaphorology. For Blumenberg, metaphors are symptomatic of patterns of thought and feeling that escape conceptual formulation but are nonetheless indispensable, because they allow humans to orient themselves in an otherwise overwhelming world. The Readability of the World applies this method to the idea that the world presents itself as a book. The metaphor of the book of nature has been central to Western interpretations of reality, and Blumenberg traces the evolution of this metaphor from ancient Greek cosmology to the model of the genetic code to access the different expectations of reality that it articulates, reflects, and projects.
Writing with equal authority on literature and science, theology and philosophy, ancient metaphysics and twentieth-century biochemistry, Blumenberg advances rich and original interpretations of the thinking of a range of canonical figures, including Berkeley, Vico, Goethe, Spinoza, Leibniz, Bacon, Flaubert, and Freud. Through his interdisciplinary, anthropologically sharpened gaze, Blumenberg uncovers a wealth of new insights into the continuities and discontinuities across human history of the longing to contain all of nature, history, and reality in a book, from the Bible, the Talmud, and the Qur'an to Diderot's Encyclopedia and Humboldt's Cosmos to the ACGT of the DNA code.
- Autor: Hans Blumenberg
- 2022, 426 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Robert Savage, David Roberts
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- ISBN-10: 1501766635
- ISBN-13: 9781501766633
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2022
Abhängig von Bildschirmgröße und eingestellter Schriftgröße kann die Seitenzahl auf Ihrem Lesegerät variieren.
- Dateiformat: PDF
- Mit Kopierschutz
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "The Readability of the World / signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation".
Kommentar verfassen