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Paradigms for a metaphorology / Hans Blumenberg ; translated from the German with an afterword by Robert Savage.
| Author/creator | Blumenberg, Hans |
| Other author | Savage, Robert (Robert Ian) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, |
| Description | 152 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Paradigmen zu einer Metaphorologie. English |
| Series | Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) ^A1054956 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010013565 |
| ISBN | 9780801449253 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801449251 (cloth : alk. paper) |