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Paradigms for a metaphorology / Hans Blumenberg ; translated from the German with an afterword by Robert Savage.
Van Pelt Library PN228.M4 B61613 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blumenberg, Hans.
- Series:
- Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
- Standardized Title:
- Paradigmen zu einer Metaphorologie. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphor.
- Physical Description:
- 152 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2010.
- Contents:
- Metaphorics of the "mighty" truth
- Metaphorics of truth and pragmatics of knowledge
- A terminological and metaphorological cross section of the idea of truth
- Metaphorics of the "naked" truth
- Terra incognita and "incomplete universe" as metaphors of the modern relationship to the world
- Organic and mechanical background metaphorics
- Myth and metaphorics
- Terminologization of a metaphor : from "verisimilitude" to "probability"
- Metaphorized cosmology
- Geometric symbolism and metaphorics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780801449253
- 0801449251
- OCLC:
- 475444626
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