Suhrkamp presents Classics from the Backlist: Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer

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28.09.2015

Rediscover Hans Blumenberg's essay Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer, a classic that offers new dimensions to the understanding of the current situation in Europe and throughout the world:


That which has been adapted and elaborated, the imaginative orientation that has been gained is condensed in great metaphors and allegories. One of those ubiquitous impressions is that of life as a sea journey. It encompasses everything from being put to see and returning, harbours and strange coasts, anchorage and navigation, the storm and the lull, distress at sea and wreckage, to the sheer will to survive and the mere observation of it. This metaphor delivers the outline of a whole made up of various conditions and possibilities, but also the limits of the seemingly impossible, which is offered to others as sailor’s yarn at best.

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Hans Blumenberg was born on 13 July 1920 in Lübeck and died on 28 March 1996 in Altenberge. Due to his mother’s Jewish background, he was preventing from attending university and only resumed his studies in 1945, gaining his doctorate in 1947 with a dissertation on medieval scholastic ontology. In 1958 Blumenberg became an associate professor in Hamburg and in 1960 a full professor in Giessen. In 1965, he moved to Bochum, before moving to the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 1970, where he became professor emeritus in 1985. The creator of what has come to be known as »metaphorology«, Blumenberg is one of the most important German philosophers of the 20th century.

Hans Blumenberg was born on 13 July 1920 in Lübeck and died on 28 March 1996 in Altenberge. Due to his mother’s Jewish background, he was...


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