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Care Crosses the River
Language: en
Pages: 157
Authors: Hans Blumenberg
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher:

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In this accessible collection of short meditations on various topics, Blumenberg works as a detective of ideas scouring the periphery of intellectual and philos
Work on Myth
Language: en
Pages: 727
Authors: Hans Blumenberg
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-03-18 - Publisher: MIT Press

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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
Shipwreck With Spectator
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Hans Blumenberg
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: MIT Press

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This elegant essay exemplifies Blumenberg's ideas about the ability of the historical study of metaphor to illuminate essential aspects of being human. Original
The Readability of the World
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Hans Blumenberg
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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The Readability of the World represents Hans Blumenberg's first extended demonstration of the metaphorological method he pioneered in Paradigms for a Metaphorol
Crossing the River
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Victor Grossman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher:

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Faced with an accusation from the US Army's highest legal authority in 1952, Grossman left his unit stationed in Bavaria and swam the Danube to East Germany. He