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Lions
Hans Blumenberg
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Description for Lions
Hardback. Translator(s): Driscoll, Kari. Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great preoccupations: metaphors and anecdotes as non-philosophical forms of knowledge. Each of these short texts, sparkling with erudition and humor, is devoted to a peculiar leonine presence or, in many cases, absence in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and politics. From Ecclesiastes to the New Testament Apocrypha, Durer to Henri Rousseau, Aesop and La Fontaine to Rilke and Thomas Mann, the extraordinary breadth of Blumenberg's knowledge and ... Read more
For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great preoccupations: metaphors and anecdotes as non-philosophical forms of knowledge. Each of these short texts, sparkling with erudition and humor, is devoted to a peculiar leonine presence or, in many cases, absence in literature, art, philosophy, religion, and politics. From Ecclesiastes to the New Testament Apocrypha, Durer to Henri Rousseau, Aesop and La Fontaine to Rilke and Thomas Mann, the extraordinary breadth of Blumenberg's knowledge and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Series
SB-The German List
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857424303
SKU
V9780857424303
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About Hans Blumenberg
Hans Blumenberg (1920 96) was a German philosopher and intellectual historian. During his lifetime he was a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation, a professor at several universities in Germany, and cofounder of the research group Poetics and Hermeneutics. Kari Driscoll is lecturer in comparative literature at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. In 2011 he was awarded ... Read more
Reviews for Lions
Blumenberg was one of those rare figures, like Robert Burton or Goethe himself, who was able to read widely across disciplines and time periods while maintaining a detailed sense of the internal conflicts and complexities of each particular domain.
David Auerbach
David Auerbach