The Genesis of the Copernican WorldThis major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. |
Contents
Translators Introduction | ix |
Contents | xii |
Part I | xxv |
Part V | xliii |
Introduction | 3 |
Cosmos and Tragedy | 9 |
The Heavens as a Cave | 22 |
At the End of the Observer in Repose | 35 |
Joachim | 336 |
Giordano Bruno | 353 |
Galileo | 386 |
Introduction | 433 |
How Antiquitys Concept of Time Did Not Fit in | 453 |
The Perfection of the Earth as a New Precondition | 488 |
The Deformation of the Earth and Absolute Time | 504 |
Introduction | 525 |
The Nonsimultaneity of the Simultaneous | 52 |
The View of the Heavens and SelfConsciousness | 73 |
The Heavens as Charming Landscape Photography | 91 |
The History of What Led Up to the Event | 123 |
Loosening of the Systematic Structure through | 135 |
Transformations of Anthropocentrism | 169 |
Humanisms Idealization of the Center of the World | 200 |
A Hypothetical Account of the Way Copernicus Arrived | 230 |
Introduction | 259 |
Consequences of an Instance of WellMeaning Mis | 290 |
The Reformation and Copernicanism | 316 |
The Copernican System as a Prototypical Supersystem | 540 |
A Retrospect on Lamberts Universe from | 565 |
What Is Copernican in Kants Turning? | 595 |
Introduction | 617 |
The Proclamation of the New Stars and One Single | 644 |
The Lack of a Paratheory to Explain Resistance to | 657 |
Reflexive Telescopics and Geotropic Astronautics | 675 |
Authors Notes | 709 |
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Page 718 - Alio modo inducitur ratio non quae sufficienter probet radicem, sed quae radici iam positae ostendat congruere consequentes effectus. Sicut in astrologia ponitur ratio excentricorum et epicyclorum ex hoc quod, hac positione facta, possunt salvari apparentia sensibilia circa motus coelestes; non tamen ratio haec est sufficienter probans, quia etiam forte alia positione facta salvari possent.
Page 717 - Indeed, you quod creaturae artificem fugerit. Humana quippe anima naturaliter divinis ex quibus pendet connexa rationibus, cum dicit — Melius hoc fieret quam illud: si verum dicit, et videt quod dicit, in illis quibus connexa est rationibus videt.* Credat ergo Deum fecisse, quod vera ratione ab eo faciendum fuisse cognovit, etiam si hoc in rebus factis non videt.