The Genesis of the Copernican World

by Hans Blumenberg, Robert M. Wallace (Translator)

Overview

This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. It provides an important corrective to the view of science as an autonomous enterprise and presents a new account of the history of interpretations of the significance of the heavens for man.

This book is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262521444
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	10/12/1989
Series:	Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	826
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Hans Blumenberg, the creator of metaphorology, was one of the most important German philosophers of the latter 20th century.

What People are Saying About This

Endorsement

His sweeping panorama... ranges from remote antiquity through Greek and Roman, medieval Christian, Hebrew, and Islamic authors, Renaissance humanists, Reformation and Counter Reformation polemicists, secular thinkers and observers, to today's cosmonauts.

—Edward Rosen, Isis

From the Publisher

"His sweeping panorama... ranges from remote antiquity through Greek and Roman,medieval Christian, Hebrew, and Islamic authors, Renaissance humanists, Reformation and CounterReformation polemicists, secular thinkers and observers, to today's cosmonauts." Edward Rosen,Isis

Isis - Edward Rosen

His sweeping panorama... ranges from remote antiquity through Greek and Roman, medieval Christian, Hebrew, and Islamic authors, Renaissance humanists, Reformation and Counter Reformation polemicists, secular thinkers and observers, to today's cosmonauts.

Editorial Reviews

I know of no book that helps us more toward understanding [the Copernican revolution] than Blumenberg's.... The length and complexity of the work are an expression of the extraordinary care with which Blumenberg approaches historical phenomena.--Karsten Harries, Inquiry--

From the Publisher

I know of no book that helps us more toward understanding [the Copernican revolution] than Blumenberg's.... The length and complexity of the work are an expression of the extraordinary care with which Blumenberg approaches historical phenomena.

—Karsten Harries, Inquiry

Reviews

I know of no book that helps us more toward understanding [the Copernican revolution] than Blumenberg's.... The length and complexity of the work are an expression of the extraordinary care with which Blumenberg approaches historical phenomena.

Inquiry - Karsten Harries