How Long to Read Paradigms for a Metaphorology

How Long Does it Take to Read Paradigms for a Metaphorology?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 45 minutes to read Paradigms for a Metaphorology by Hans Blumenberg

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

What role do metaphors play in philosophical language? Are they impediments to clear thinking and clear expression, rhetorical flourishes that may well help to make philosophy more accessible to a lay audience, but that ought ideally to be eradicated in the interests of terminological exactness? Or can the images used by philosophers tell us more about the hopes and cares, attitudes and indifferences that regulate an epoch than their carefully elaborated systems of thought? In Paradigms for a Metaphorology, originally published in 1960 and here made available for the first time in English translation, Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) approaches these questions by examining the relationship between metaphors and concepts. Blumenberg argues for the existence of "absolute metaphors" that cannot be translated back into conceptual language. "Absolute metaphors" answer the supposedly naïve, theoretically unanswerable questions whose relevance lies quite simply in the fact that they cannot be brushed aside, since we do not pose them ourselves but find them already posed in the ground of our existence. They leap into a void that concepts are unable to fill. An afterword by the translator, Robert Savage, positions the book in the intellectual context of its time and explains its continuing importance for work in the history of ideas.

How long is Paradigms for a Metaphorology?

Paradigms for a Metaphorology by Hans Blumenberg is 104 pages long, and a total of 26,416 words.

This makes it 35% the length of the average book. It also has 32% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Paradigms for a Metaphorology Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 24 minutes to read Paradigms for a Metaphorology aloud.

What Reading Level is Paradigms for a Metaphorology?

Paradigms for a Metaphorology is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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