Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Hans Blumenberg: An Introduction 1
4. Part I. History, Secularization, and Reality
5. 1. The Linguistic Reality of Philosophy (1946/1947) 33
6. 2. World Pictures and World Models (1961) 40
7. 3. “Secularization”: Critique of a Category of Historical Illegitimacy (1964) 53
8. 4. The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State (1968/1969) 83
9. 5. Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality (1974) 117
10. Part II. Metaphors, Rhetoric, and Nonconceptuality
11. 6. Light as a Metaphor for Truth: At the Preliminary Stage of Philosophical Concept Formation (1957) 129
12. 7. Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology (1960) 170
13. 8. An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric (1971) 177
14. 9. Observations Drawn from Metaphors (1971) 209
15. 10. Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality (1979) 239
16. 11. Theory of Nonconceptuality (circa 1975, excerpt) 259
17. Part III. Nature, Technology, and Aesthetics
18. 12. The Relationship between Nature and Technology as a Philosophical Problem (1951) 301
19. 13. “Imitation of Nature”: Toward a Prehistory of the Idea of the Creative Being (1957) 316
20. 14. Phenomenological Aspects on Life-World and Technization (1963) 358
21. 15. Socrates and the objet ambigu: Paul Valéry’s Discussion of the Ontology of the Aesthetic Object and Its Tradition (1964) 400
22. 16. The Essential Ambiguity of the Aesthetic Object (1966) 441
23. 17. Speech Situation and Immanent Poetics (1966) 449
24. Part IV. Fables, Anecdotes, and the Novel
25. 18. The Absolute Father (1952/1953) 469
26. 19. The Mythos and Ethos of America in the Work of William Faulkner (1958) 476
27. 20. The Concept of Reality and the Possibility of the Novel (1964) 499
28. 21. Pensiveness (1980 525
29. 22. Moments of Goethe (1982) 531
30. 23. Beyond the Edge of Reality: Three Short Essays (1983) 547
31. 24. Of Nonunderstanding: Glosses on Three Fables (1984) 562
32. 25. Unknown Aesopica: From Newly Found Fables (1985) 566
33. 26. Advancing into Eternal Silence: A Century after the Sailing of the Fram (1993) 571
34. Glossary 581
35. Bibliography 583
36. Index 593