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Blumenberg’s Rhetoric

Marking the 50th anniversary of one among this philosopher’s most distinguished pieces, Blumenberg’s Rhetoric proffers a decidedly diversified interaction with the essai polyvalently entitled ‘Anthropological Approach to the Topicality (or Currency, Relevance, even actualitas) of Rhetoric’ ("An...

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Other Authors: Feger, Sonja (Contributor) , Godart, Simon (Contributor) , Hiller, Daniel Rudy (Contributor) , Küpper, Joachim (Contributor) , Mayfield, D. S. (Editor) , Niehues-Pröbsting, Heinrich (Contributor) , Trüstedt, Katrin (Contributor) , Waszynski, Alexander (Contributor) , Weber-Steinhaus, Friedrich (Contributor) , Zambon, Nicola (Contributor)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Berlin Boston De Gruyter [2023]
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1515/9783110981940
Online Access:Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110981940
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Author Notes:ed. by DS Mayfield
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments (With a Terse Meditation on Gratitude)
  • Preface
  • Provision
  • Rhetoric and Phenomenology
  • Phenomenology and Rhetoric (or: Husserl ‘in Distress at Seeing’)
  • Rhetoric from the Spirit of Phenomenology? On a Lecture Blumenberg Never Gave
  • Rhetoric and Truthcraft
  • “The Truth must dazzle gradually”. Some Remarks on Detours and Rhetorical Pertinence (By Recourse to Hans Blumenberg and Emily Dickinson)
  • Conceptuality, Myth, Metaphor: Reading Plato’s Phaedrus with Blumenberg
  • Rhetoric and Intellectual History
  • “‘Tis sixty years since”—Rhetoric, or Philosophy of History? Remarks on Blumenberg’s Die Legitimität der Neuzeit
  • Man: Poor or Rich? Blumenberg as a Thinker in the Tradition of Classical Liberalism
  • Rhetoric and Anthropology
  • Standing In, Speaking For: The Rhetorical Scene of Substitution
  • Getting Closer. Approaching Rhetoric From a (Certain) Distance
  • Rhetoric and Methodical Interplay
  • Against Thematocentrism: Blumenberg’s Zigzag Paths
  • Functionality · Subtlety · Cognition: iuncturae Between Rhetoric, Philology, and Philosophy by Recourse to Blumenberg (as Well as Boeckh and Boethius)
  • In Place of a Displacement
  • On Conversing With Oneself (Regarding Free Variation, Ventriloquism, and Vanity)
  • Addenda
  • Replacement Procedures in Blumenberg’s Essay on ‘Approaching the Topicality of Rhetoric’
  • Approaching Blumenberg’s Understanding of Philosophy
  • Postscript
  • Letter to the Pater. The Conflict of Father and Son in Hans Blumenberg
  • Contributors
  • Index

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