Myth and the Human Sciences : Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth (Hardcover)

Foreword by Robert A. Segal  Prologue: A Story About the Telling of Stories  1. Hans Blumenberg: An Introduction  2. Myth and the Human Sciences During the Sattelzeit  3. German Philosophy and the ‘Will to Science’  4. Davos and After, or: The Function of Anthropology  5. Promethean Anthropologies  6. Goethe’s ‘Prometheus,’ or: On Cultural Selection  7. ‘After the Work on Myth’: The Political Reception of Work on Myth  8. Conclusion: Political Myth in the Blumenberg Nachlass