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Zusatztext 'contains, amongst other highly perceptive papers, the key essay 'Indicted and unburdened man in eighteenth-century philosophy' (38-63), alone worth whole volumes of exegesis. Here in translation it deserves to reach the widest audience.'Modern Language Studies, Volume 52 (1990) 1991 Klappentext This book is the latest addition to the Odeon series, a multidisciplinary series devoted to original works and translations by European writers in the areas of literature, criticism, philosophy, history and politics. An English translation of the German best-seller Abschied vom Prinzipiellen, the book offers a series of essays that present a philosophy of human morality critical of philosophical utopianism. Marquard, widely considered the heir of Gadamer, Habermas, and Blumenberg, describes his role as "skeptical philosopher" and discusses the 18th-century formation of such themes and disciplines as aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history, the nature of myth and attempts to account for it, and hermeneutics. Zusammenfassung This book is a series of translated essays covering German philosophy, literary theory, and modern intellectual history. Odo Marquard is considered the natural heir to Gadamer, Habermas, and Blumenberg, and here discusses a number of different topics: his role as 'skeptical' philosopher; the formation during the 18th century of modern 'themes' and 'disciplines' such as aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of history; the nature of myth and attempts to account for it, from Schelling to Levi-Strauss; and the question of hermeneutics.
