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Blumenberg, Hans, - 1920-1996

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Blumenberg, Hans, - 1920-1996

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Depuis la publication posthume de ses textes à teneur strictement phénoménologique - et notamment du volumineux Description de l'homme -, nous sommes à mêmes de comprendre l'anthropologie philosophique dont Blumenberg a voulu enrichir la phénoménologie de son maître, Edmond Husserl. Apparaît ainsi une manière de philosopher tout a fait unique dans notre époque, qui libère en particulier de toute une série d'impasses dans lesquelles la philosophie européenne était engluée depuis près d'un demi siècle. (La pseudo majesté de la question dite de l'Etre, ou de celle de l'être-pour-la-mort, s'en trouve volatilisée). La probité philosophique de Hans Blumenberg est une libération immanente par rapport à des problématiques englobantes et fausses, ce que s'attache à montrer la majorité des contributions de ce volume. De cette patience du philosopher, toujours au plus près de la description la plus minutieuse, se dégage alors un pan encore inédit de l'immense corpus blumenbergien : une sagesse qui semblait passée de mode. Blumenberg l'appelait sa para-éthique. C'est tout simplement une philosophie utile à la vie.

Blumenberg, Hans --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Anthropologie philosophique --- Blumenberg, Hans. --- Blumenberg, Hans, --- Blumenberg, Hans, - 1920-1996 --- Blumenberg, Hans (1920-1996) --- Critique et interprétation

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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef, 1889-1951 --- Blumenberg, Hans, - 1920-1996

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This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg’s theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the most important German theorist of myth of the second half of the twentieth century, and his Work on Myth (1979) has resonated across disciplines ranging from literary theory, via philosophy, religious studies and anthropology, to the history and philosophy of science. Nicholls introduces Anglophone readers to Blumenberg’s biography and to his philosophical contexts. He elucidates Blumenberg’s theory of myth by relating it to three important developments in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German philosophy (hermeneutics, phenomenology and philosophical anthropology), while also comparing Blumenberg’s ideas with those of other prominent theorists of myth such as Vico, Hume, Schelling, Max Müller, Frazer, Sorel, Freud, Cassirer, Heidegger, Horkheimer and Adorno. According to Nicholls, Blumenberg’s theory of myth can only be understood in relation to the ‘human sciences,’ since it emerges from a speculative hypothesis concerning the emergence of the earliest human beings. For Blumenberg, myth was originally a cultural adaptation that constituted the human attempt to deal with anxieties concerning the threatening forces of nature by anthropomorphizing those forces into mythic images. In the final two chapters, Blumenberg’s theory of myth is placed within the post-war political context of West Germany. Through a consideration of Blumenberg’s exchanges with Carl Schmitt, as well as by analysing unpublished correspondence and parts of the original Work of Myth manuscript that Blumenberg held back from publication, Nicholls shows that Blumenberg’s theory of myth also amounted to a reckoning with the legacy of National Socialism.

Myth. --- Mythe --- Blumenberg, Hans. --- Demythologization --- God --- Gods --- Mythology --- Religion --- בלומנברג, הנס --- ブル-メンベルクハンス --- Myth --- Blumenberg, Hans, --- Philosophy, German --- Blumenberg, Hans --- Blumenberg, Hans, - 1920-1996