Angus Nicholls

Myth and the Human Sciences (eBook, ePUB)

Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a critical analysis of the theory of myth outlined by the twentieth-century German philosopher Hans Blumenberg. Angus Nicholls introduces the reader to Blumenberg's Work on Myth (1979), as well as to its broader intellectual background and its relationship to other eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century theories of myth. Nicholls also places Blumenberg's theory of myth within the political context of West Germany, drawing on Blumenberg's unpublished work to show that his theory of myth amounted to a reckoning with the legacy of National Socialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317817215
• Artikelnr.: 42008586

Autorenporträt

Angus Nicholls is Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK, where he teaches German and Comparative Literature. His previous books include Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic (2006) and Thinking the Unconscious (co-edited with Martin Liebscher, 2010). He is co-editor of History of the Human Sciences and of the Publications of the English Goethe Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Robert A. Segal Prologue: A Story About the Telling of Stories
1. Hans Blumenberg: An Introduction 2. Myth and the Human Sciences During
the Sattelzeit 3. German Philosophy and the 'Will to Science' 4. Davos and
After, or: The Function of Anthropology 5. Promethean Anthropologies 6.
Goethe's 'Prometheus,' or: On Cultural Selection 7. 'After the Work on
Myth': The Political Reception of Work on Myth 8. Conclusion: Political
Myth in the Blumenberg Nachlass