Care Crosses the River

Zusatztext "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 . . . which is not to say that this reader-friendly genre is less intellectually impressive than the larger works." Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext In this accessible collection of short meditations on various topics, Blumenberg works as a detective of ideas scouring the periphery of intellectual and philosophical history for clues--metaphors, gestures, anecdotes--essential to grasping human finitude. Zusammenfassung In this accessible collection of short meditations on various topics, Blumenberg works as a detective of ideas scouring the periphery of intellectual and philosophical history for clues-metaphors, gestures, anecdotes-essential to grasping human finitude.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Blumenberg, Hans/ Fleming Blumenberg
• Assisted by: Paul Fleming (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2010
• EAN: 9780804735797
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3579-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics; Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works