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Toward the end of the Second World War, the works of the great German poet Friedrich Hölderlin were heavily exploited by Nazi propaganda as a source of spiritual strength for the war-weary German people. Once the fires had burned out, scholars attempted to absolve Hölderlin of any responsibility for his wartime (mis)appropriation. Only a few saw that his work would have to be reread in the light of the iniquities that had been said and done in his name. This book examines how Hölderlin was taken up by three such thinkers, among the most influential and controversial of their time: Martin Heidegger, Theodor W. Adorno, and Bertolt Brecht. It extrapolates from their writings on the poet three irreconcilable paradigms of reception - conversation, polemic, and citation - that are of significance for the broader project of working through the tarnished German cultural legacy after 1945. In each case, Hölderlin is examined as the occasion for salvaging that legacy after, from, and in view of the catastrophe. This first full-length study of Hölderlin's postwar reception will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of German literature, European philosophy, the politics of cultural memory, and critical theory. Robert Savage is ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Collective memory --- Literature and history --- National socialism and literature. --- Hölderlin, Friedrich, --- Heidegger, Martin, --- Adorno, Theodor W., --- Brecht, Bertolt, --- Appreciation. --- Adorno, Theodor W. --- Brecht, Bertolt --- Heidegger, Martin --- Hölderlin, Friedrich --- Hölderlin, Friedrich, --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- Literature and national socialism --- Literature --- Hölderlin, Friedrich --- Gelʹderlin, Fridrikh, --- Hölderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich, --- Kholʹderlin, Fridrikh, --- Holderlin, Frederich, --- הלדרלין, פרידריך, --- Bertolt Brecht. --- Critical Theory. --- Cultural Memory. --- European Philosophy. --- German Literature. --- Hölderlin. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Postwar Reception. --- Theodor W. Adorno. --- Holderlin, Friedrich,

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The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan Assmann, a leading historian of ancient religion. The story of Moses guiding the enslaved children of Israel out of captivity to become God's chosen people is the foundation of an entirely new idea of religion, one that lives on today in many of the world's faiths. The Invention of Religion sheds new light on ancient scriptures to show how Exodus has shaped fundamental understandings of monotheistic practice and belief.

Exodus, The --- Israelites crossing the Red Sea (Biblical event) --- Jews --- Exodus (Biblical event) --- Crossing the Red Sea (Biblical event) --- Red Sea, Crossing of the (Biblical event) --- Red Sea, Israelites crossing of the (Biblical event) --- History --- Conquest of Canaan --- Settlement in Canaan --- Wanderings in the wilderness --- Exodus --- Moses --- Moïse --- Moiseĭ --- Moisés --- Mosè --- Mosheh --- Mosheh, --- Mosis --- Moyshe, --- Mózes --- Mūsá --- Nabī Mūsá --- משה --- משה, --- Bible. --- Chʻuraegŭpki (Book of the Old Testament) --- Exodus (Book of the Old Testament) --- Khurūj --- Kitāb-i Shimūt (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shemot --- Sifr al-Khurūj (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 222.3 --- 222.3 Exodus. Leviticus. Numeri --- 222.3 L'Exode. Le Lévitique. Les Nombres --- Exodus. Leviticus. Numeri --- L'Exode. Le Lévitique. Les Nombres --- Exodus, The. --- Shemos --- Jews - History - To 1200 B.C. --- Moses - (Biblical leader)

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"Paradigms for a Metaphorology may be read as a kind of beginner's guide to Blumenberg, a programmatic introduction to his vast and multifaceted oeuvre. Its brevity makes it an ideal point of entry for readers daunted by the sheer bulk of Blumenberg's later writings, or distracted by their profusion of historical detail. Paradigms expresses many of Blumenberg's key ideas with a directness, concision, and clarity he would rarely match elsewhere. What is more, because it served as a beginner's guide for its author as well, allowing him to undertake an initial survey of problems that would preoccupy him for the remainder of his life, it has the additional advantage that it can offer us a glimpse into what might be called the 'genesis of the Blumenbergian world.'"-from the Afterword by Robert SavageWhat role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and indifferences that regulate an epoch than their carefully elaborated systems of thought?In Paradigms for a Metaphorology, originally published in 1960 and here made available for the first time in English translation, Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) approaches these questions by examining the relationship between metaphors and concepts. Blumenberg argues for the existence of "absolute metaphors" that cannot be translated back into conceptual language. These metaphors answer the supposedly naïve, theoretically unanswerable questions whose relevance lies quite simply in the fact that they cannot be brushed aside, since we do not pose them ourselves but find them already posed in the ground of our existence. They leap into a void that concepts are unable to fill.An afterword by the translator, Robert Savage, positions the book in the intellectual context of its time and explains its continuing importance for work in the history of ideas.

Metaphor. --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Metaphor in literature.

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