- Title Pages
- Hans Blumenberg: An Introduction
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1 The Linguistic Reality of Philosophy -
2 World Pictures and World Models -
3 “Secularization” -
4 The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State -
5 Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality -
6 Light as a Metaphor for Truth -
7 Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology -
8 An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric -
9 Observations Drawn from Metaphors -
10 Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality -
11 Theory of Nonconceptuality -
12 The Relationship between Nature and Technology as a Philosophical Problem -
13 “Imitation of Nature” -
14 Phenomenological Aspects on Life-World and Technization -
15 Socrates and the objet ambigu -
16 The Essential Ambiguity of the Aesthetic Object -
17 Speech Situation and Immanent Poetics -
18 The Absolute Father -
19 The Mythos and Ethos of America in the Work of William Faulkner -
20 The Concept of Reality and the Possibility of the Novel -
21 Pensiveness -
22 Moments of Goethe -
23 Beyond the Edge of Reality -
24 Of Nonunderstanding -
25 Unknown Aesopica -
26 Advancing into Eternal Silence - Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric
An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric
(1971)
- Chapter:
- (p.177) 8 An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric
- Source:
- History, Metaphors, Fables
- Author(s):
Hans Blumenberg
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter describes Hans Blumenberg's first tentative reflection on the topic of philosophical anthropology, which was “An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric” (1971). This work was originally published in Italian, with its German version not appearing for another ten years. Here, Blumenberg extends his preoccupation with language by turning toward its role not just in historical systems of thought but in human behavior as such. Focusing in particular on rhetoric, that is, speech that aims to persuade rather than to express the truth, he understands it as one vital tool of existence among others for a being to whom any final truths are unavailable and whose mortality presses it to act. Ultimately, “Anthropological Approach” seeks to outline a “deep history” of rhetoric.
Keywords: Hans Blumenberg, philosophical anthropology, language, human behavior, rhetoric, speech
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- Title Pages
- Hans Blumenberg: An Introduction
-
1 The Linguistic Reality of Philosophy -
2 World Pictures and World Models -
3 “Secularization” -
4 The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State -
5 Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality -
6 Light as a Metaphor for Truth -
7 Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology -
8 An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric -
9 Observations Drawn from Metaphors -
10 Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality -
11 Theory of Nonconceptuality -
12 The Relationship between Nature and Technology as a Philosophical Problem -
13 “Imitation of Nature” -
14 Phenomenological Aspects on Life-World and Technization -
15 Socrates and the objet ambigu -
16 The Essential Ambiguity of the Aesthetic Object -
17 Speech Situation and Immanent Poetics -
18 The Absolute Father -
19 The Mythos and Ethos of America in the Work of William Faulkner -
20 The Concept of Reality and the Possibility of the Novel -
21 Pensiveness -
22 Moments of Goethe -
23 Beyond the Edge of Reality -
24 Of Nonunderstanding -
25 Unknown Aesopica -
26 Advancing into Eternal Silence - Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
