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Hans Blumenberg was born on July 13 1920 in Lubeck, Germany. He is known for his study of philosophy, mainly Germanistik and classical philosophy (1939-47). He died on March 28, 1996 from Westphalia. Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein District: Independent city Area: 214. ... These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ...
He wrote many famous writings including:
(1947) Thesis of contributions for the problem of the originalness of the mittelalterlichscholastischen Ontologie (unpublished).
(1950) Habilitation in Kiel with the study the ontologische distance. An investigation on the Krisis of the Phaenomenologie Husserls (unpublished).
(1966) The legitimacy of the modern times.
(1981) The genesis of the kopernikanischen world. The legibility of the world.
(1986) Work on the myth. Lifetime and world time.
During his lifetime he was a member of the senate of the German research council, a professor at several universities in Germany and a joint founder of the research group "Poetik and Hermeneutik".
While MIT Press has, thankfully, translated four of Blumenberg's books, he is not "seeping" into the culture in spite of laudatory reviews by philosophers like Richard Rorty.
Blumenberg rather resists "positions" around which flags can be planted, battle cries formulated.
What the recently dead German philosopher HansBlumenberg argues in his major book is that all ages are at an equal distance from nowhere and no linear conception of history can do justice to the multifarious human endeavour.
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