Blumenberg’s Rhetoric

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Blumenberg’s Rhetoric

Edited by: DS Mayfield

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110981940

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Marking the 50^th anniversary of one among this philosopher’s most distinguished pieces, Blumenberg’s Rhetoric proffers a decidedly diversified interaction with the essai polyvalently entitled ‘Anthropological Approach to the Topicality (or Currency, Relevance, even actualitas) of Rhetoric’ ("Anthropologische Annäherung an die Aktualität der Rhetorik"), first published in 1971.

Following Blumenberg’s lead, the contributors consider and tackle their topics rhetorically—treating (inter alia) the variegated discourses of Phenomenology and Truthcraft, of Intellectual History and Anthropology, as well as the interplay of methods, from a plurality of viewpoints. The diachronically extensive, disciplinarily diverse essays of this publication—notably in the current lingua franca—will facilitate, and are to conduce to, further scholarship with respect to Blumenberg and the art of rhetoric.

With contributions by Sonja Feger, Simon Godart, Joachim Küpper, DS Mayfield, Heinrich Niehues-Pröbsting, Daniel Rudy Hiller, Katrin Trüstedt, Alexander Waszynski, Friedrich Weber-Steinhaus, Nicola Zambon.

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DS Mayfield, Heidelberg University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments (With a Terse Meditation on Gratitude) Ds Mayfield Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Preface
Provision Ds Mayfield Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Rhetoric and Phenomenology
Phenomenology and Rhetoric (or: Husserl ‘in Distress at Seeing’) Heinrich Niehues-Pröbsting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Rhetoric from the Spirit of Phenomenology? On a Lecture Blumenberg Never Gave Nicola Zambon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Rhetoric and Truthcraft
“The Truth must dazzle gradually”. Some Remarks on Detours and Rhetorical Pertinence (By Recourse to Hans Blumenberg and Emily Dickinson) Sonja Feger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Conceptuality, Myth, Metaphor: Reading Plato’s Phaedrus with Blumenberg Friedrich Weber-Steinhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Rhetoric and Intellectual History
“‘Tis sixty years since”—Rhetoric, or Philosophy of History? Remarks on Blumenberg’s Die Legitimität der Neuzeit Joachim Küpper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Man: Poor or Rich? Blumenberg as a Thinker in the Tradition of Classical Liberalism Daniel Rudy Hiller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Rhetoric and Anthropology
Standing In, Speaking For: The Rhetorical Scene of Substitution Katrin Trüstedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Getting Closer. Approaching Rhetoric From a (Certain) Distance Simon Godart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Rhetoric and Methodical Interplay
Against Thematocentrism: Blumenberg’s Zigzag Paths Alexander Waszynski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Functionality · Subtlety · Cognition: iuncturae Between Rhetoric, Philology, and Philosophy by Recourse to Blumenberg (as Well as Boeckh and Boethius) Ds Mayfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
In Place of a Displacement
On Conversing With Oneself (Regarding Free Variation, Ventriloquism, and Vanity) Ds Mayfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Addenda
Replacement Procedures in Blumenberg’s Essay on ‘Approaching the Topicality of Rhetoric’ Alexander Waszynski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Approaching Blumenberg’s Understanding of Philosophy Heinrich Niehues-Pröbsting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Postscript
Letter to the Pater. The Conflict of Father and Son in Hans Blumenberg Heinrich Niehues-Pröbsting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers working in the fields of Rhetoric, Philosophy, Literary History
Pages
- Front matter: 24
- Main content: 394
Keywords: Hans Blumenberg; Rhetoric; Anthropology; Phenomenology

eBook

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783110981940

Hardcover

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783110995749