Hans Blumenberg - 100th Birthday on 13 July 2020

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12.07.2020
Beitrag zu Hans Blumenberg - 100th Birthday on 13 July 2020
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100 years ago, on this day, Hans Blumenberg was born in Lübeck. With his groundbreaking work on metaphors, his great studies on the genesis of modern thought as well as his late work dedicated to anthropological problems, he has created an œuvre that is unique in 20th-century philosophy. To this day, it takes an enormous effect, even far beyond the limts of the discipline, and numerous translations into more than 20 languages attest to his international significance. For more than 50 years, Suhrkamp Verlag has been publishing Hans Blumensberg’s substantial works, among them classics such as The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, The Genesis of the Copernican World, Shipwreck with Spectator or Work on Myth. On the occasion of his 100th birthday on July 13, 2020, Suhrkamp Verlag publishes two seminal new books by the philosopher: his hitherto unpublished doctoral thesis entitled Contributions to the Problem of the Originality of the Medieval-Scholastic Ontology as well as the study Reality and Realism, published from the estate. In addition, Rüdiger Zill presents an extensive and richly illustrated intellectual biography of this outstanding thinker in The Absolute Reader.


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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