Paradigms for a Metaphorology

Name: Paradigms for a Metaphorology
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ISBN: 9780801449253

ISBN-10: 0801449251

ISBN-13: 9780801449253

Edition: 2016

Authors: Hans Blumenberg, Robert Savage

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What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and indifferences that regulate an epoch than their carefully elaborated systems of thought?In Paradigms for a Metaphorology, originally published in 1963 and here made available for the first time in English translation, Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) approaches these questions by examining the relationship…

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List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 8/19/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 104
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.10" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Hans Blumenberg, the creator of metaphorology, was one of the most important German philosophers of the latter 20th century.



A Note on the Translation


Introduction



Metaphorics of the 'Mighty' Truth



Metaphorics of Truth and Pragmatics of Knowledge



A Terminological and Metaphorological Cross Section of the Idea of Truth



Metaphorics of the 'Naked' Truth



Terra Incognita and 'Incomplete Universe' as Metaphors of the Modern Relationship to the World



Organic and Mechanical Background Metaphorics



Myth and Metaphorics



Terminologization of a Metaphor: From 'Verisimilitude' to 'Probability'



Metaphorized Cosmology



Geometric Symbolism and Metaphorics


Translator's Afterword. Metaphorology: A Beginner's Guide


Index of Names


Subject Index