Care Crosses the River
"[T]ranslated by Paul Fleming with supreme tact and understanding . . . [this is a] provocative, lyrical book."—Christopher D. Johnson, Intellectual History Review
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. Les mer
At 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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Stanford University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 176
- ISBN
- 9780804735803
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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"[T]ranslated by Paul Fleming with supreme tact and understanding . . . [this is a] provocative, lyrical book."—Christopher D. Johnson, Intellectual History Review
"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."—Bruce Krajewski, Common Knowledge