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The readability of the world / Hans Blumenberg ; translated by Robert Savage and David Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blumenberg, Hans, author.
- Series:
- Signale. Transfer.
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Signale. Transfer
- Cornell scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Lesbarkeit der Welt. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Philosophy of nature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (423 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2022.
- Summary:
- For Hans Blumenberg, metaphors are symptomatic of patterns of thought and feeling that escape conceptual formulation but are nonetheless indispensable, because they allow humans to orient themselves in an otherwise overwhelming world. 'The Readability of the World' applies this method to the idea that the world presents itself as a book. The metaphor of the book of nature has been central to Western interpretations of reality, and he traces the evolution of this metaphor from ancient Greek cosmology to the model of the genetic code to access the different expectations of reality that it articulates, reflects, and projects.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "A Signale Book."
- This translation also issued in print: 2022.
- Translated from the German.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 23, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Blumenberg, Hans The Readability of the World
- ISBN:
- 9781501766626
- 1501766627
- OCLC:
- 1334009020
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