German philosopher and intellectual historian (1920-1996)
Hans Blumenberg (born 13 July 1920, Lübeck – 28 March 1996, Altenberge) was a German philosopher and intellectual historian.
He studied philosophy, German studies and the classics (1939–47, interrupted by World War II) and is considered to be one of the most important German philosophers of the century. He died on 28 March 1996 in Altenberge (near Münster), Germany.
Blumenberg created what has come to be called "metaphorology", which states that what lies under metaphors and language modisms, is the nearest to the truth (and the farthest from ideologies). His last works, especially "Care Crosses the River" (Die Sorge geht über den Fluss), are attempts to apprehend human reality through its metaphors and involuntary expressions. Digging under apparently meaningless anecdotes of the history of occidental thought and literature, Blumenberg drew a map of the expressions, examples, gestures, that flourished in the discussions of what are thought to be more important matters. Blumenberg's interpretations are extremely unpredictable and personal, all full of signs, indications and suggestions, sometimes ironic. Above all, it is a warning against the force of revealed truth, and for the beauty of a world in confusion.
HansBlumenberg (born 13 July 1920, Lübeck – 28 March 1996, Altenberge) was a German philosopher and intellectual historian. He studied philosophy, German...
Blumenberg may refer to: Blumenberg (surname) Blumenberg, Cologne, part of Chorweiler, Cologne, Germany Blumenberg (quarry), near Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany...
Starting in the 1940s, German philosopher and intellectual historian HansBlumenberg (1920–1996) compiled more than 30,000 cards into his Zettelkasten,...
understanding of these matters, include Carl L. Becker, Karl Löwith, HansBlumenberg, M. H. Abrams, Peter L. Berger, Paul Bénichou and D. L. Munby, among...
group "Poetik und Hermeneutik" with two other colleagues from Gießen (HansBlumenberg and Clemens Heselhaus), along with Wolfgang Iser from Würzburg. The...
Under Charles I. Eyre & Spottiswoode. p. 26. ISBN 978-7-470-00028-0. HansBlumenberg (1985). The Legitimacy of the Modern Age. MIT Press. p. 549. ISBN 978-0-262-52105-5...
spotted from space". BBC News. July 22, 2004. Retrieved May 22, 2010. HansBlumenberg, Shipwreck with Spectator: Paradigm of a Metaphor for Existence (Cambridge...
Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, HansBlumenberg, Norbert Elias, Paul Feyerabend, Jürgen Habermas, Hans Jonas, Niklas Luhmann, Tilmann Moser, Gershom...
Modern Age (1966) and The Genesis of the Copernican World (1975), HansBlumenberg has rejected the idea of a historical continuity – fundamental to the...
policy as expression of the desire for self-assertion. Here he follows HansBlumenberg, and attempts to apply his theory of modernity to Shakespeare. In this...
ultimately arriving at ubiquitous Platonic forms and an abstract god. HansBlumenberg received his habilitation in 1950, with a dissertation on ontological...
disproven by Lynn Thorndike in 1943. The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by HansBlumenberg describes Petrarch's ascent of Ventoux as "one of the great moments...
Middle Ages Oresme (crater) List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics HansBlumenberg, The Genesis of the Copernican World, MIT Press, 1987, p. 158. Duhem...
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historians in the archive, the invention of the psychosocial, and HansBlumenberg. History of the Human Sciences is abstracted and indexed in Academic...
Pannenberg continued the debate against HansBlumenberg in the so-called 'theorem of secularization'. "Blumenberg targets Löwith's argument that progress...
machine manufacturers Schmitz and Wesseler were founded in Altenberge. HansBlumenberg (1920-1996) German philosopher Herbert Vorgrimler (1929-2014) Catholic...
it end in an apocalyptic destruction. Schmitt, Eric Voegelin, Hans Jonas, HansBlumenberg and Odo Marquard, on the other hand, wanted to legitimise the...
Arthur Kaufmann see Urcan/Braunwarth, p. 238-241 HansBlumenberg: Schnitzlers Philosoph. In: HansBlumenberg, Die Verführbarkeit des Philosophen. Ed. by Manfred...
Hamburg, and he was made ordinary professor in 1947 in Kiel, where HansBlumenberg was one of his students. In 1954 he transferred to Cologne, and become...
(1930–1992) Lawrence Blum (born 1943) Albert Blumberg (1906–1997) HansBlumenberg (1920–1996) Andy Blunden (born 1945) Norberto Bobbio (1909–2004)[b][c][d]...
Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann and Niklas Luhmann in sociology, and HansBlumenberg in philosophy. Since the mid-2010s, there has occurred a Gehlen revival...
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