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.Hans Blumenberg is Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at the University of Munster in West Germany. This book is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy
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German philosopher and intellectual historian Blumenberg here discusses the impact of Copernican astronomy on philosophy, science, and literature. Well versed in scientific detail, he stresses the changes in patterns of thought arising with the new scientific account of the world. The author, who attaches great significance to the medieval nominalists in the onset of modern science, uses his immense knowledge not only to discuss the main themes of his book but also to roam historical byways. Goethe's comments on Copernicus, the personal relations between Galileo and Kepler, and the exact meaning of Kant's use of the Copernican metaphor are among the myriad topics explored in this truly indispensable masterwork. David Gordon, Social Philosophy & Policy Ctr., Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio
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"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
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Middle Ages, Milky Way, Giordano Bruno, Cosmological Letters, Joachim Rheticus, Nicole Oresme, Critique of Pure Reason, Nicholas of Cusa, Franciscus de Marchia, Tycho Brahe, Ash Wednesday, Francis Bacon, High Scholasticism, Thomas Aquinas, Two Chief World Systems, Authentic Summary, Old Testament, Petrus Ramus, Andreas Osiander, Berlin Academy, Duke Albert, Earth's Moon, Aristarchus of Samos, German Idealism, Johannes Kepler New!
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Middle Ages, Milky Way, Giordano Bruno, Cosmological Letters, Joachim Rheticus, Nicole Oresme, Critique of Pure Reason, Nicholas of Cusa, Franciscus de Marchia, Tycho Brahe, Ash Wednesday, Francis Bacon, High Scholasticism, Thomas Aquinas, Two Chief World Systems, Authentic Summary, Old Testament, Petrus Ramus, Andreas Osiander, Berlin Academy, Duke Albert, Earth's Moon, Aristarchus of Samos, German Idealism, Johannes Kepler New!
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- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 15 pages
- The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Hans Blumenberg on 14 pages
- Work on Myth (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Hans Blumenberg on 7 pages
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican by Galileo Galilei on 6 pages
- The Ash Wednesday Supper (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series) by Giordano Bruno on 6 pages
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- The Immanence of the Infinite: Hans Blumenberg and the Threshold to Modernity by Elizabeth Brient on 6 pages
- Cervantes: Essays in Memory of E.C. Riley on the Quatercentenary of Don Quijote by Jeremy Robbins on page 40, page 53, and page 54
- Hegel's Hermeneutics by Paul Redding in Front Matter, page 25, and Back Matter
- Descartes As a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism by Gary Steiner on page 330, page 331, and Back Matter
- Refractions of Violence by Martin Jay on page 120, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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