Paradigms for a metaphorology /
Hans Blumenberg ; translated from the German with an afterword by Robert Savage.
- 152 pages ; 24 cm.
- Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought .
- Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.). .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Metaphorics of the "mighty" truth -- Metaphorics of truth and pragmatics of knowledge -- A terminological and metaphorological cross section of the idea of truth -- Metaphorics of the "naked" truth -- Terra incognita and "incomplete universe" as metaphors of the modern relationship to the world -- Organic and mechanical background metaphorics -- Myth and metaphorics -- Terminologization of a metaphor : from "verisimilitude" to "probability" -- Metaphorized cosmology -- Geometric symbolism and metaphorics.