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Paradigms for a metaphorology / Hans Blumenberg ; translated from the German with an afterword by Robert Savage.

Title
Paradigms for a metaphorology / Hans Blumenberg ; translated from the German with an afterword by Robert Savage.
Author
Blumenberg, Hans.
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2010.

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Additional Authors
Savage, Robert (Robert Ian)
Description
152 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Uniform Title
  • Paradigmen zu einer Metaphorologie. English
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Alternative Title
Paradigmen zu einer Metaphorologie.
Subject
Metaphor
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780801449253 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801449251 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010013565
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library