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"Hans Blumenberg has, in the quarter-century since his death, become recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the postwar period. The Readability of the World represents Blumenberg's first full-length demonstration of the metaphorological method he had pioneered twenty years...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blumenberg, Hans (Author)
Other Authors: Savage, Robert (Robert Ian) (Translator), Roberts, David, 1937- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2022.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Science > Philosophy.
Philosophy of nature.
Philosophie de la nature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
Philosophy of nature
Science > Philosophy
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
Philosophy.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A Metaphor for the Totality of Experience
  • The World of Books and the Book of the World
  • The Sky as Book, the Book in the Sky
  • Alphabetic Analogies
  • The Protracted Appearance of the Second of the Two Books
  • The Illiterate Layman as Reader of the World Book
  • God's Books Agree With Each Other
  • Asymmetries of Readability
  • Encryption and Decryption of the Human World
  • World Chronicle or World Formula
  • A Robinsonian World Against the Newtonian World
  • Anticipations of the Nineteenth Century
  • The Hamburg Book of Nature and its Reflection in KoÌ⁸nigsberg
  • Signs on Foreheads, Signs in the Sky
  • "How Readable the Book of Nature is Becoming . . ."
  • "The World Must Be Romanticized"
  • The Idea of the Absolute Book
  • A Book on Nature as a Book of Nature
  • The Empty World Book
  • Preparation for the Interpretation of Dreams
  • Making Dreams Readable
  • The Genetic Code and its Readers.

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