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Lions

Hardcover • 2018 • English • 1. edition

Lions

By Hans Blumenberg

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For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great preoccupations: metaphors and anecdotes as non-philosophical forms of knowledge. Each of these short texts, sparkling with erudition and humor, is devoted to a peculiar leonine presence or, in many cases, absence in literature, art, philosophy, religion, ...Show more

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ISBN

9780857424303

Publisher

Seagull Books London Ltd

Published year

2018

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Lions

Format

Hardcover

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