CONTENTS

1. Hans Blumenberg: An Introduction
2. Hannes Bajohr, Florian Fuchs, and Joe Paul Kroll
3. Part I  History, Secularization, and Reality
4.   1.  The Linguistic Reality of Philosophy (1946/1947)
5.   2.  World Pictures and World Models (1961)
6.   3.  “Secularization”
7.   4.  The Concept of Reality and the Theory of the State (1968/1969)
8.   5.  Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality (1974)
9. Part II  Metaphors, Rhetoric, and Nonconceptuality
10.   6.  Light as a Metaphor for Truth
11.   7.  Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology (1960)
12.   8.  An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric (1971)
13.   9.  Observations Drawn from Metaphors (1971)
14. 10.  Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality (1979)
15. 11.  Theory of Nonconceptuality (circa 1975, excerpt)
16. Part III  Nature, Technology, and Aesthetics
17. 12.  The Relationship between Nature and Technology as a Philosophical Problem (1951)
18. 13.  “Imitation of Nature”
19. 14.  Phenomenological Aspects on Life-World and Technization (1963)
20. 15.  Socrates and the objet ambigu
21. 16.  The Essential Ambiguity of the Aesthetic Object (1966)
22. 17.  Speech Situation and Immanent Poetics (1966)
23. Part IV  Fables, Anecdotes, and the Novel
24. 18.  The Absolute Father (1952/1953)
25. 19.  The Mythos and Ethos of America in the Work of William Faulkner (1958)
26. 20.  The Concept of Reality and the Possibility of the Novel (1964)
27. 21.  Pensiveness (1980)
28. 22.  Moments of Goethe (1982)
29. 23.  Beyond the Edge of Reality
30. 24.  Of Nonunderstanding
31. 25.  Unknown Aesopica
32. 26.  Advancing into Eternal Silence
33. Glossary
34. Bibliography
35. Index