{"product_id":"paradigms-for-a-metaphorology-paperback-softback-9781501704352","title":"Paradigms for a Metaphorology (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501704352","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eParadigms for a Metaphorology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHans Blumenberg (Author), Robert Savage (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501704352\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 January 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e104 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadigms for a Metaphorology\u003c\/i\u003e is a model of scholarly translation. Savage's handling of citations and sources is scrupulous and thorough.... And he provides judicious explanatory notes that work in conjunction with the afterword and Blumenberg's own notes to guide readers through Blumenberg's own reading and career. Finally, and most importantly, his English rendering is consistently accurate while also being, in the context of translations of German philosophy, remarkably readable.... In short, readers approaching Blumenberg's reflections on metaphor through the English language could not ask for a more reliable and helpful guide than this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e - David Adams (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eW\u003cb\u003ehat role do metaphors play in philosophical language?\u003c\/b\u003e Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and indifferences that regulate an epoch than their carefully elaborated systems of thought?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eParadigms for a Metaphorology\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1960 and here made available for the first time in English translation, Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) approaches these questions by examining the relationship between metaphors and concepts. Blumenberg argues for the existence of \"absolute metaphors\" that cannot be translated back into conceptual language. \"Absolute metaphors\" answer the supposedly naïve, theoretically unanswerable questions whose relevance lies quite simply in the fact that they cannot be brushed aside, since we do not pose them ourselves but find them already posed in the ground of our existence. They leap into a void that concepts are unable to fill. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn afterword by the translator, Robert Savage, positions the book in the intellectual context of its time and explains its continuing importance for work in the history of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Blumenberg: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: History, Secularization, and Reality\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e1. The Linguistic Reality of Philosophy (1946\/1947)\u003cbr\u003e 2. World Pictures and World Models (1961)\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Secularization\": Critique of a Category of Hisotrical Illegitimacy (1964)\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State (1968\/1969)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality (1974)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Metaphors, Rhetoric, and Nonconceptuality\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e6. Light as a Metaphor for Truth: At the Preliminary Stage of Philosophical Concept Formation (1957)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology (1960)\u003cbr\u003e 8. An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric (1971)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Observations Drawn from Metaphors (1971)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality (1979)\u003cbr\u003e 11. Theory of Nonconceptuality (circa 1975, excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: Nature, Technology, and Asthetics\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e12. The Relationship between Nature and Technology as a Philosophical Problem (1951)\u003cbr\u003e 13. \"Imitation of Nature\": Toward a Prehistory of the Idea of the Creative Being (1957)\u003cbr\u003e 14. Phenomenological Aspects on Life-World and Technization (1963)\u003cbr\u003e 15. Socrates and the objet ambigu: Paul Valery's Discussion of the Ontology of the Aesthetic Object and Its Tradition (1964)\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Essential Ambiguity of the Aesthetic Object (1966)\u003cbr\u003e 17. Speech Situation and Immanent Poetics (1966)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Fables, Anecdotes, and the Novel\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e18. The Absolute Father (1952\/1953)\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Mythos and Ethos of America in the Work of William Faulkner (1958)\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Concept of Reality and the Possibility of the Novel (1964)\u003cbr\u003e 21. Pensiveness (1980)\u003cbr\u003e 22. Moments of Goethe (1982)\u003cbr\u003e 23. Beyond the Edge of Reality: Three Short Essays (1983)\u003cbr\u003e 24. Of Nonunderstanding: Glosses on Three Fables (1984)\u003cbr\u003e 25. Unknown Aesopica: From Newly Found Fables (1985)\u003cbr\u003e 26. Advancing into Eternal Silence: A Century after the Sailing of the Fram (1993)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670824808728,"sku":"9781501704352","price":16.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/paradigms-for-a-metaphorology-paperback-softback-9781501704352","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}