“The Truth must dazzle gradually”. Some Remarks on Detours and Rhetorical Pertinence (By Recourse to Hans Blumenberg and Emily Dickinson)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments (With a Terse Meditation on Gratitude) XI
4. Preface
5. Provision XV
6. Rhetoric and Phenomenology
7. Phenomenology and Rhetoric (or: Husserl ‘in Distress at Seeing’) 1
8. Rhetoric from the Spirit of Phenomenology? On a Lecture Blumenberg Never Gave 27
9. Rhetoric and Truthcraft
10. “The Truth must dazzle gradually”. Some Remarks on Detours and Rhetorical Pertinence (By Recourse to Hans Blumenberg and Emily Dickinson) 43
11. Conceptuality, Myth, Metaphor: Reading Plato’s Phaedrus with Blumenberg 65
12. Rhetoric and Intellectual History
13. “‘Tis sixty years since”—Rhetoric, or Philosophy of History? Remarks on Blumenberg’s Die Legitimität der Neuzeit 89
14. Man: Poor or Rich? Blumenberg as a Thinker in the Tradition of Classical Liberalism 119
15. Rhetoric and Anthropology
16. Standing In, Speaking For: The Rhetorical Scene of Substitution 137
17. Getting Closer. Approaching Rhetoric From a (Certain) Distance 153
18. Rhetoric and Methodical Interplay
19. Against Thematocentrism: Blumenberg’s Zigzag Paths 177
20. Functionality · Subtlety · Cognition: iuncturae Between Rhetoric, Philology, and Philosophy by Recourse to Blumenberg (as Well as Boeckh and Boethius) 195
21. In Place of a Displacement
22. On Conversing With Oneself (Regarding Free Variation, Ventriloquism, and Vanity) 269
23. Addenda
24. Replacement Procedures in Blumenberg’s Essay on ‘Approaching the Topicality of Rhetoric’ 291
25. Approaching Blumenberg’s Understanding of Philosophy 321
26. Postscript
27. Letter to the Pater. The Conflict of Father and Son in Hans Blumenberg 353
28. Contributors 383
29. Index 387