Blumenberg’s Rhetoric

Contents\nAcknowledgments (With a Terse Meditation on Gratitude)\nPreface\nProvision\nRhetoric and Phenomenology\nPhenomenology and Rhetoric (or: Husserl ‘in Distress at Seeing’)\nRhetoric from the Spirit of Phenomenology? On a Lecture Blumenberg Never Gave\nRhetoric and Truthcraft\n“The Truth must dazzle gradually”. Some Remarks on Detours and Rhetorical Pertinence (By Recourse to Hans Blumenberg and Emily Dickinson)\nConceptuality, Myth, Metaphor: Reading Plato’s Phaedrus with Blumenberg\nRhetoric and Intellectual History\n“‘Tis sixty years since”—Rhetoric, or Philosophy of History? Remarks on Blumenberg’s Die Legitimität der Neuzeit\nMan: Poor or Rich? Blumenberg as a Thinker in the Tradition of Classical Liberalism\nRhetoric and Anthropology\nStanding In, Speaking For: The Rhetorical Scene of Substitution\nGetting Closer. Approaching Rhetoric From a (Certain) Distance\nRhetoric and Methodical Interplay\nAgainst Thematocentrism: Blumenberg’s Zigzag Paths\nFunctionality · Subtlety · Cognition: iuncturae Between Rhetoric, Philology, and Philosophy by Recourse to Blumenberg (as Well as Boeckh and Boethius)\nIn Place of a Displacement\nOn Conversing With Oneself (Regarding Free Variation, Ventriloquism, and Vanity)\nAddenda\nReplacement Procedures in Blumenberg’s Essay on ‘Approaching the Topicality of Rhetoric’\nApproaching Blumenberg’s Understanding of Philosophy\nPostscript\nLetter to the Pater. The Conflict of Father and Son in Hans Blumenberg\nContributors\nIndex