Blumenberg’s Rhetoric

Contents
Acknowledgments (With a Terse Meditation on Gratitude)
Preface
Provision
Rhetoric and Phenomenology
Phenomenology and Rhetoric (or: Husserl ‘in Distress at Seeing’)
Rhetoric from the Spirit of Phenomenology? On a Lecture Blumenberg Never Gave
Rhetoric and Truthcraft
“The Truth must dazzle gradually”. Some Remarks on Detours and Rhetorical Pertinence (By Recourse to Hans Blumenberg and Emily Dickinson)
Conceptuality, Myth, Metaphor: Reading Plato’s Phaedrus with Blumenberg
Rhetoric and Intellectual History
“‘Tis sixty years since”—Rhetoric, or Philosophy of History? Remarks on Blumenberg’s Die Legitimität der Neuzeit
Man: Poor or Rich? Blumenberg as a Thinker in the Tradition of Classical Liberalism
Rhetoric and Anthropology
Standing In, Speaking For: The Rhetorical Scene of Substitution
Getting Closer. Approaching Rhetoric From a (Certain) Distance
Rhetoric and Methodical Interplay
Against Thematocentrism: Blumenberg’s Zigzag Paths
Functionality · Subtlety · Cognition: iuncturae Between Rhetoric, Philology, and Philosophy by Recourse to Blumenberg (as Well as Boeckh and Boethius)
In Place of a Displacement
On Conversing With Oneself (Regarding Free Variation, Ventriloquism, and Vanity)
Addenda
Replacement Procedures in Blumenberg’s Essay on ‘Approaching the Topicality of Rhetoric’
Approaching Blumenberg’s Understanding of Philosophy
Postscript
Letter to the Pater. The Conflict of Father and Son in Hans Blumenberg
Contributors
Index