...Anna Wertz Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 ON THE POSSIBILITY OF CREATIVE BEING: INTRODUCING HANS BLUMENBERG Anna Wertz "The Imitation of Nature," first published in the interdiscipli- nary journal Studium Generale in 1957, is arguably the most nu- anced...

...Samuel Moyn Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING: HANS BLUMENBERG, GIAMBATTISTA VICO, AND THE PROBLEM OF ORIGINS' Samuel Moyn "To speak of beginnings is always to be suspected of a mania for returning to origins," the contemporary German philosopher...

...Anthony Reynolds Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 UNFAMILIAR METHODS: BLUMENBERG AND RORTY ON METAPHOR Anthony Reynolds To ask "how metaphors work" is like asking how genius works. If we knew that, genius would...

...Rüdiger Campe Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 FROM THE THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY TO THE TECHNIQUE OF METAPHOR: BLUMENBERG'S OPENING MOVE Riidiger Campe Whereas products of modern science and technology sever themselves from what was there before they emerged, techne...

...Hans Blumenberg Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 "IMITATION OF NATURE": TOWARD A PREHISTORY OF THE IDEA OF THE CREATIVE BEING Hans Blumenberg I For almost two thousand years, it seemed as if the conclusive and final answer...

... Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 This issue of Qui Parle centers around Hans Blumenberg (1920- 1996), one of the foremost German thinkers of the postwar era, whose wide-ranging erudition covered the history of philosophy, theology, science, and aesthetics from the Greeks to the modern...

... paradigm. What this means, metaphorologically speaking, is that the terminological fixation or "terminologization" (in Blumenberg's sense) of the Newtonian paradigm finds itself, after its suspension by Einstein, 134 ANSELM HAVERKAMP reduced to the status of a bygone metaphoricity...

... Copyright © 2000 Qui Parle 2000 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS HANS BLUMENBERG was Professor of Philosophy at the Univer- sity of Miinster until his death in 1996. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the history of philosophy and science. Those in English...

... Parle 12:1 THE END OF NATURE: Hans Blumenberg, Rudiger Campe, Chris Diffee, Anselm Haverkamp, Samuel Moyn, Christo- pher Peterson, Anthony Reynolds, Anna Wertz Copyright © 2001 Qui Parle 2001 ...

... appeals to (divine) transcendence. Although Taubes acknowledges that the modern revolt against the world “can never achieve a beyond of the world in a strictly topographical sense” (106), he disagrees with Hans Blumenberg’s conclusion that therefore no convergence can be drawn across the epistemic divide...

... no distinction between pathology and health. On the contrary, it is the pathos , the affect, the passivity of the thinker that will go on to occupy large frameworks of thought, such as those of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Adorno, Levinas, Blumenberg, Derrida, Deleuze, and so on. Critique...

... is a servant of the people in the delegated exercise of obediential power (as he himself has called it; see “Thesis 4” in TTP). The interpretations that Taubes puts forth of the positions taken toward Paul of Tarsus by C. Schmitt, Hans Blumenberg, and even Freud and Nietzche...