By Hans Blumenberg
This significant paintings via the German thinker Hans Blumenberg is a huge rethinking of the importance of the Copernican revolution for our figuring out of modernity. It offers a massive corrective to the view of technological know-how as an self sustaining company and provides a brand new account of the background of interpretations of the importance of the heavens for man.Hans Blumenberg is Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, on the college of Munster in West Germany. This booklet is incorporated within the sequence experiences in modern German Social notion, edited through Thomas McCarthy
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