Lions

Hans Blumenberg (1920–96) was a German philosopher and intellectual historian. During his lifetime he was a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation, a professor at several universities in Germany, and cofounder of the research group Poetics and Hermeneutics. Kári Driscoll is lecturer in comparative literature at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. In 2011 he was awarded the inaugural Gutekunst Prize for Young Translators.

“Blumenberg was one of those rare figures, like Robert Burton or Goethe himself, who was able to read widely across disciplines and time periods while maintaining a detailed sense of the internal conflicts and complexities of each particular domain.”

• LionsSympathy for the LionHomeopathyThe Elephant, Not the LionThe Absence About the LionFiesco’s LionImpeded LionsOne Species of Leonine Absence Ecclesiastes’ Dead LionThe Absence About the Lion: MorgensternThe Absent LionPreserved from a LionThe Baptized LionThe Renewed Absence of Leonine ThoughtTwo Different Measures of a Lion’s HungerThe Cares of the LionessThe Fearful LionThe Dreamt-Out Dream of the Lion’s AbsenceIn Defence of the Absent LionDelayed Effects of Absent LionsThe Absence About the Sea LionThe Polemical LionThe Presence of a Lion—As If He Were AbsentThe Remedy for the Lion’s ReturnSea Lions—A MisunderstandingThe Lion’s Absence for the ElephantThe Absence About the Lion: St Jerome in His Study with an Hourglass Conciliatory Expulsion of the LionThe Liberating Power of the TruthThe False Lion of the BacchaeFelicitous Animal Metaphor Tonio Kröger’s LionsNotes to the English Edition