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CARE CROSSES THE RIVER

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Description for CARE CROSSES THE RIVER Paperback. This books reflections culminate in a re-reading of the title fable that lies at the centre of Heideggers analysis of Dasein. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HP. .

In this collection of short meditations on various topics, Hans Blumenberg eschews academic ponderousness and writes in a genre evocative of Montaigne's Essais, Walter Benjamin's Denkbilder, or Adorno's Minima Moralia. Drawing upon an intellectual tradition that ranges from Aesop to Wittgenstein and from medieval theology to astrophysics, he works as a detective of ideas scouring the periphery of intellectual and philosophical history for clues—metaphors, gestures, anecdotes—essential to grasping human finitude. Images of shipwrecks, attempts at ordering the world, and questions of foundations are traced through the work of Goethe, Schopenhauer, Simmel, Husserl, Thomas Mann, and others. The book's reflections culminate ... Read more

At stake throughout are two inextricable elements of Blumenberg's thought: a theory of nonconceptuality as essential to philosophizing and an exploration of culture understood as humanity's unceasing attempts to relieve itself of the weight of the absolutism of reality.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804735803
SKU
V9780804735803
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About Hans Blumenberg
Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996) was one of Germany's most important postwar philosophers. Among his works available in English are: The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (1985), Work on Myth (1986), The Genesis of the Copernican World (1989), and Shipwreck with Spectator (1996).

Reviews for CARE CROSSES THE RIVER
"[T]ranslated by Paul Fleming with supreme tact and understanding . . . [this is a] provocative, lyrical book."—Christopher D. Johnson, Intellectual History Review "Blumenberg perhaps anticipated the appeal of more Twitter-sized chunks of prose for a different kind of audience [than that of his other works]. Care Crosses the River is a wonderful example of that genre . . . ... Read more

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