Shipwreck with Spectator: Paradigm of a Metaphor for Existence (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
Language: English
Published by Mit Pr, 1997
Series: Book 45 of 69 - Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
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- Title
- Shipwreck with Spectator: Paradigm of a Metaphor for Existence (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
- Author
- Blumenberg, Hans (Author), Rendall, Steven (Translator)
- Publisher
- Mit Pr
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 026202411X
- ISBN 13
- 9780262024112
- Series
- Book 45 of 69: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
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- Philosophy
The sea is one of humanity's oldest metaphors for life, and a sea journey, Blumenberg observes, has often stood for our journey through life. We all know the role that shipwrecks can play in this journey, and at some level we have all played witness to others' wrecks, standing in safety and knowing that there is nothing we can do to help, yet fixed comfortably or uncomfortably in our ambiguous role as spectator.
Through Blumenberg's seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of letters, from ancient texts through nineteenth-century reminiscences and modern speeches, we see layer upon layer revealed in the meaning humans have given to these metaphors; and in this way we begin to understand what metaphors can do that more straightforward modes of expression cannot.
This edition of Shipwreck with Spectator also includes "Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality," an essay that recounts the evolution of Blumenberg's ideas about metaphorology in the years following his early manifesto "Paradigms for a Metaphorology."
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