Myth and Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth
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Queen Mary University of London
: B - Modern Languages
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics : B - Modern Languages
- Output identifier
- 1321
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781317817222
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 124,000-word monograph concerns one of the most prolific philosophers in post-war Germany. It has a wide intellectual scope, treating thinkers from antiquity (Xenophanes, Plato), the Enlightenment (Vico, Hume), the romantic period (Herder, Schelling), the later nineteenth century (M?ller, Tylor, Frazer, Nietzsche) and the twentieth century (Cassirer, Heidegger). The book includes detailed historiography, situating Blumenberg?s work in relation to the legacy of Nazism in German intellectual life, and is based not only on published primary sources but also (particularly in chapters 7 and 8) on a series of unpublished texts from Blumenberg?s Nachlass, discovered during eighteen months of archival work.?
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- Non-English
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