Paradigms for a metaphorology / Hans Blumenberg ; translated from the German with an afterword by Robert Savage.
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library,
2010.
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| Series: | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.).
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Table of Contents:
- Metaphorics of the "mighty" truth
- Metaphorics of truth and pragmatics of knowledge
- A terminological and metaphorological cross section of the idea of truth
- Metaphorics of the "naked" truth
- Terra incognita and "incomplete universe" as metaphors of the modern relationship to the world
- Organic and mechanical background metaphorics
- Myth and metaphorics
- Terminologization of a metaphor : from "verisimilitude" to "probability"
- Metaphorized cosmology
- Geometric symbolism and metaphorics.