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The Readability of the World (Hardcover)
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The Readability of the World (Hardcover)
Series: signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation
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The Readability of the World represents Hans Blumenberg's first
extended demonstration of the metaphorological method he pioneered
in Paradigms for a Metaphorology. For 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 Blumenberg 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. Writing with equal authority on literature and
science, theology and philosophy, ancient metaphysics and
twentieth-century biochemistry, Blumenberg advances rich and
original interpretations of the thinking of a range of canonical
figures, including Berkeley, Vico, Goethe, Spinoza, Leibniz, Bacon,
Flaubert, and Freud. Through his interdisciplinary,
anthropologically sharpened gaze, Blumenberg uncovers a wealth of
new insights into the continuities and discontinuities across human
history of the longing to contain all of nature, history, and
reality in a book, from the Bible, the Talmud, and the Qur'an to
Diderot's Encyclopedia and Humboldt's Cosmos to the ACGT of the DNA
code.
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