Hans Blumenberg

Guest Editors: Paul Fleming, Rüdiger Campe, and Kirk Wetters

In this issue of Telos, we turn our attention to the work of the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg. This issue, guest-edited by Paul Fleming, Rüdiger Campe, and Kirk Wetters, aims to reinvigorate the critical engagement with Blumenberg’s work in the English-speaking world by casting a new light on his thought and its fundamental concerns. The essays collected here complement the previous critical attention to secularization and modernity by emphasizing Blumenberg’s larger theoretical projects: metaphorology, nonconceptuality, rhetoric, technology, anthropology, and myth.

Introduction
Paul Fleming, Rüdiger Campe, and Kirk Wetters

Passion in Prose
Eva Geulen

On the Edge of Non-Contingency: Anecdotes and the Lifeworld
Paul Fleming

The Scandal of Metaphorology
Anselm Haverkamp

Histories of Technicization: On the Relation of Conceptual History and Metaphorology in Hans Blumenberg
Dirk Mende

Contingencies in Blumenberg and Luhmann
Rüdiger Campe

Working Over Philosophy: Hans Blumenberg’s Reformulations of the Absolute
Kirk Wetters

Between Terror and Play: The Intellectual Encounter of Hans Blumenberg and Jacob Taubes
Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink

Blumenberg, Politics, Anthropology
Brad Tabas

Kyklophorology: Hans Blumenberg and the Intellectual History of Technics
Helmut Müller-Sievers

Herbert Marcuse on the Arab-Israeli Conflict: His Conversation with Moshe Dayan
Zvi Tauber

Protocol of the Conversation between the Philosopher Herbert Marcuse and Israel’s Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan, December 29, 1971