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Hans Blumenberg: No Matter When?

Posted on October 28, 2012

In 1986, Hans Blumenberg published Lebenszeit und Weltzeit (“Life-time and World-time”; see also the previous post on “The Datum”). Sandwiched between a two-part critique of Husserl’s concept of Lebenswelt, the book contains an investigation of the interrelatedness and ultimately the … Continue reading

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Hans Blumenberg: The Datum

Posted on July 26, 2012

In my last post, I briefly addressed the question of what guided Blumenberg’s choice of authors as points of departure for his Begriffe in Geschichten and how they might illuminate his broader discussion with those authors. In the present case, … Continue reading

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Hans Blumenberg: Apertures: Fine Sieve, Wide Net

Posted on July 26, 2012

I began this series of translations of Hans Blumenberg’s shorter texts with a selection from Begriffe in Geschichten. Whilst many of these short digressions plunge to the core of his interlocutors’ ideas, albeit by a somewhat oblique approach, others make … Continue reading

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Hans Blumenberg: What is Absent about the Lion

Posted on July 21, 2012

The posthumous collection Löwen was published in 2001 according, it would seem, to Blumenberg’s own intentions. In this slim volume are gathered 32 short pieces, almost never longer than a handful of paragraphs, each devoted to unlocking the significance of … Continue reading

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Hans Blumenberg: The Paradox of Jesus’ Last Words

Posted on June 8, 2012

Joe Paul Kroll completed his PhD thesis, A Human End to History? Hans Blumenberg, Karl Löwith and Carl Schmitt on Secularization and Modernity, in 2010 at Princeton University. A great deal has been written, not the worst of it in these pages, … Continue reading

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Hans Blumenberg: ‘Vergleichsverbot’

Posted on June 7, 2012

Joe Paul Kroll completed his PhD thesis, A Human End to History? Hans Blumenberg, Karl Löwith and Carl Schmitt on Secularization and Modernity, in 2010 at Princeton University. This post and original translation is his first post on Chakira. Hans Blumenberg … Continue reading

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