Care Crosses the River - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Hans Blumenberg, Paul Fleming (Translator)Series:Meridian: Crossing AestheticsPublish date:2010-08-16Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804735803ISBN-10:804735808UPC:9780804735803Book Category:PhilosophySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCJ5AXM32X
Care Crosses the River
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...
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804735803ISBN-10:804735808UPC:9780804735803Book Category:PhilosophySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCJ5AXM32X
Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) was one of Germany's most important postwar philosophers. Among his works available in English are: The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (1985), Work on Myth (1986), The Genesis of the Copernican World (1989), and Shipwreck with Spectator (1996).
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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