Hans Blumenberg
Hans Blumenberg · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Philosopher of The Legitimacy of the Modern Age and Work on Myth, son of a Jewish-born mother, barred from the universities and sent to a labor camp under the Nazis
13 juillet 1920, Lübeck, Allemagne — 28 mars 1996, Altenberge, Westphalie, Allemagne
Lübeck, Münster
Hans Blumenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Philosopher of The Legitimacy of the Modern Age and Work on Myth, son of a Jewish-born mother, barred from the universities and sent to a labor camp under the Nazis
Origins and early life
Hans Blumenberg was born in Lübeck on 13 July 1920 into a prosperous Catholic household; his mother, born Jewish, had converted to Catholicism, and under the Nuremberg laws her son was a 'Mischling of the first degree', a half-Jew — the ancestry on which this fiche rests, and which decided his youth.
Work and career
The best pupil of his school, he was forbidden in 1939 to receive his diploma with the others and barred from the universities; he studied theology and philosophy for a while in the Catholic seminaries of Paderborn and Frankfurt, which the state then closed to him too, and worked at the Dräger factory in Lübeck, whose owner, Heinrich Dräger, protected him until, in 1945, he was sent to a labor camp at Zerbst; he escaped and was hidden by the Dräger family until the end of the war.
He took his doctorate at Kiel in 1947, taught at Hamburg, Giessen and Bochum, and from 1970 to 1985 at Münster, and became the most original philosopher of post-war Germany, a scholar of enormous erudition who almost never appeared in public. His Paradigms for a Metaphorology of 1960 argued that metaphors are not ornaments of thought but its foundation; The Legitimacy of the Modern Age of 1966 defended modernity against those who called it a secularized theology; The Genesis of the Copernican World of 1975 and Work on Myth of 1979 traced how human beings, faced with 'the absolutism of reality', make it bearable through science and through stories. He died at Altenberge, near Münster, on 28 March 1996, leaving a mass of manuscripts that are still being published.
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Philosopher of The Legitimacy of the Modern Age and Work on Myth, son of a Jewish-born mother, barred from the universities and sent to a labor camp under the Nazis
Source: https://www.jhiblog.org/2020/09/16/the-absolute-reader/
