Paradigms for a metaphorology
By: Hans Blumenberg ; translated from the German with an afterword by Robert Savage
Contributors: Savage, Robert (Robert Ian)
Series: Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought; Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Publisher: Cornell University Press; Cornell University Library
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801449253
Work titles: Paradigmen zu einer Metaphorologie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Metaphorics of the "mighty" truth; title: Metaphorics of truth and pragmatics of knowledge; title: A terminological and metaphorological cross section of the idea of truth; title: Metaphorics of the "naked" truth; title: Terra incognita and "incomplete universe" as metaphors of the modern relationship to the world; title: Organic and mechanical background metaphorics; title: Myth and metaphorics; title: Terminologization of a metaphor : from "verisimilitude" to "probability"; title: Metaphorized cosmology; title: Geometric symbolism and metaphorics.