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Hans Blumenberg

The Laughter of the Thracian Woman

A Protohistory of Theory

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An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, The Laughter of the Thracian Woman describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato's Theaetetus dialogue: while focused on observing the stars, the early astronomer and proto-philosopher Thales of Miletus fails to see a well directly in his path and tumbles down. A Thracian servant girl laughs, amused that he sought to understand what was above him when he was not mindful of what was right in front of him. Blumenberg sees the story as a highly sought substitute for our missing knowledge of the earliest historical… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Hawkins, Spencer (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-62356-853-5
  • EAN: 9781623568535
  • Produktnummer: 27939594
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 315 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) is one of the most significant German philosophers of the twentieth century. He is the author of The Legibility of the World, Legitimacy of the Modern Age, Genesis of the Copernican World, Work on Myth, and Out of the Cave. Blumenberg co-founded the Poetik und Hermeneutik interdisciplinary research group along with Hans-Robert Jauß in 1963. He published prodigiously and left even more work behind unpublished. He died in 1996 in Altenberge.

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