Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996) was one of the most important German philosophers of the twentieth century. Among his books translated into English are Paradigms for a Metaphorology, Rigorism of Truth, St. Matthew Passion, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, and Care Crosses the River. His criticism and other writings have been collected and translated in History, Metaphors, Fables.Robert Savage is the author of Hölderlin after the Catastrophe and the translator of several books, including Jan Assmann's The Invention of Religion.David Roberts is the author of several books, including The Total Work of Art in European Modernism and History of the Present.

Spanning from the biblical account of creation to modern genetics, Blumenberg's book can be understood as an intense effort to refract the history of ideas through the lens of a fundamental metaphor. In detailed individual analyses of relevant historical texts, he explains the metaphor's various assignments of meaning from the intellectual, sociocultural, and biographical contexts in which it is deployed.(Rhetorica) Learning about Blumenberg's metaphorology as well as the stars of intellectual history has been made possible for Anglophones by the extraordinary translation skills of Robert Savage and David Roberts.(Los Angeles Review of Books)

Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996) was one of the most important German philosophers of the twentieth century. Among his books translated into English are Paradigms for a Metaphorology, Rigorism of Truth, St. Matthew Passion, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, and Care Crosses the River. His criticism and other writings have been collected and translated in History, Metaphors, Fables.Robert Savage is the author of Hölderlin after the Catastrophe and the translator of several books, including Jan Assmann's The Invention of Religion.David Roberts is the author of several books, including The Total Work of Art in European Modernism and History of the Present.

Spanning from the biblical account of creation to modern genetics, Blumenberg's book can be understood as an intense effort to refract the history of ideas through the lens of a fundamental metaphor. In detailed individual analyses of relevant historical texts, he explains the metaphor's various assignments of meaning from the intellectual, sociocultural, and biographical contexts in which it is deployed.(Rhetorica) Learning about Blumenberg's metaphorology as well as the stars of intellectual history has been made possible for Anglophones by the extraordinary translation skills of Robert Savage and David Roberts.(Los Angeles Review of Books)

Hans Blumenberg (1920–1996) was one of the most important German philosophers of the twentieth century. Among his books translated into English are Paradigms for a Metaphorology, Rigorism of Truth, St. Matthew Passion, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, and Care Crosses the River. His criticism and other writings have been collected and translated in History, Metaphors, Fables.Robert Savage is the author of Hölderlin after the Catastrophe and the translator of several books, including Jan Assmann's The Invention of Religion.David Roberts is the author of several books, including The Total Work of Art in European Modernism and History of the Present.

Spanning from the biblical account of creation to modern genetics, Blumenberg's book can be understood as an intense effort to refract the history of ideas through the lens of a fundamental metaphor. In detailed individual analyses of relevant historical texts, he explains the metaphor's various assignments of meaning from the intellectual, sociocultural, and biographical contexts in which it is deployed.(Rhetorica) Learning about Blumenberg's metaphorology as well as the stars of intellectual history has been made possible for Anglophones by the extraordinary translation skills of Robert Savage and David Roberts.(Los Angeles Review of Books)