The Laughter of the Thracian Woman
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-62356-230-4 (ISBN)
Blumenberg sees the story as a highly sought substitute for our missing knowledge of the earliest historical events that would fit the label “theory.” By retelling the anecdote, philosophers reveal their distinctive values regarding absorption in curiosity, philosophy’s past, and the demand that theorists abide by sanctioned methods and procedures. In this work and others, Blumenberg demonstrates that philosophers’ most beloved images and anecdotes have become indispensable to philosophy as metaphors; that is, as representations whose meanings remain indefinite and invite frequent reinterpretation.
Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) was one of the most significant German philosophers of the twentieth century. His publications include The Legibility of the World, Legitimacy of the Modern Age, Genesis of the Copernican World, Work on Myth, and Out of the Cave. Spencer Hawkins is an Instructor in the Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas program at Bilkent University, Turkey.
Introduction: Reading into the Distance
About this book
I. Theory as exotic behavior
II. Socrates is shifted into protohistory
III. Knowledge about heaven and capability on earth
IV. The theorist between comedy and tragedy
V. Reoccupations
VI. Astrological predominance
VII. Applause and scorn from the moralists
VIII. As adopted by historical critique
IX. From cursing sinners to scorn for the Creation
X. Tycho Brahe's coachman and the earthquake in Lisbon
XI. Absentmindednesses
XII. In what matter Thales had failed according to Nietzsche
XIII. How to recognize what matters
IVX. Interdisciplinarity as repetition of protohistory
Works Cited
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.6.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Directions in German Studies |
Übersetzer | Spencer Hawkins |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 310 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-62356-230-9 / 1623562309 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-62356-230-4 / 9781623562304 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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