| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 406 pages). |
| Series |
Signale/Transfer : German thought in translation
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Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Note |
"Originally published under the title Die Lesbarkeit der Welt, by Hans Blumenberg. ©Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1981"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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 earlier in Paradigms for a Metaphorology. Whereas Blumenberg had confined himself in Paradigms to sketching this future research field, in Readability he applies his method to a single case study: the idea that the world presents itself to human beings as a book. The metaphor of the book of nature has been central to Western interpretations of reality. Beginning with ancient Greek cosmology and ending with the genetic code, Blumenberg traces the changes undergone by this metaphor in order to access the different expectations of reality that it articulates, reflects, and projects"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language |
Translated from the German. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy of nature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German |
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Philosophy of nature |
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Science -- Philosophy |
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Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology. |
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Philosophy. |
| Added Author |
Savage, Robert (Robert Ian), translator.
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Roberts, David, 1937- translator.
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| Added Title |
Lesbarkeit der Welt. English
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| Translation Of: |
Translation of: Blumenberg, Hans. Lesbarkeit der Welt. 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 1981 351807055X (DLC) 81177956 (OCoLC)8568881 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Blumenberg, Hans. Readability of the world Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2022 9781501766619 (DLC) 2022001486 |
| ISBN |
9781501766626 electronic book |
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1501766627 electronic book |
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9781501766633 electronic book |
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1501766635 electronic book |
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9781501766619 hardcover |
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