Blumenberg’s Thinking as a Phenomenological Heresy and the Lifeworld as an Impossible Metaphor

• Authors: Menditto Giuseppe
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Hans Blumenberg’s reflection is grounded on the phenomenology of history that can be considered as one of the most heretical Husserl’s developments. Blumenberg sees these developments as a way of thinking, a “source” of inspiration, a “legacy” and a sort of “legitimacy.” The purpose of this paper is to stress two different but connected ques-tions on this heresy: on the one hand, the path of Blumenberg’s phenomenology not as continuum of historical substances, but as “reoccupation” of problems that a thinker bequeaths to another; on the other hand, the metaphor, as Blumenberg’s “semantic anomaly” and Husserl’s Lebenswelt images (e.g. “ground,” “horizon,” “leap”) as “infi-nite” heresy of their premises.

Keywords

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lifeworld; metaphor; heresy; semantic anomaly; reoccupation

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 75-85

Contributors

author

Menditto Giuseppe

• University of Rome Sapienza, via Carlo Fea 2, 00161 Rome, Italy