Description: Care Crosses the River, Paperback by Blumenberg, Hans; Fleming, Paul (TRN), ISBN 0804735808, ISBN-13 9780804735803, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. Th's reflections culminate in a rereading of the fable "Care Crosses the River" that lies at the center of Heidegger's analysis of Dasein in which the fable's elided Gnostic center is recovered: Care creates the human in its own image, as a reflection of its 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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Book Title: Care Crosses the River
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Care Crosses the River
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: General, Semiotics & Theory
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2010
Item Weight: 9.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Author: Hans Blumenberg
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
