The readability of the world
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501766619
- ISBN: 1501766635
- ISBN: 9781501766633
- ISBN: 1501766627
- ISBN: 9781501766626
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 406 pages).
remote - Publisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published under the title Die Lesbarkeit der Welt, by Hans Blumenberg. ©Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1981"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A Metaphor for the Totality of Experience -- The World of Books and the Book of the World -- The Sky as Book, the Book in the Sky -- Alphabetic Analogies -- The Protracted Appearance of the Second of the Two Books -- The Illiterate Layman as Reader of the World Book -- God's Books Agree With Each Other -- Asymmetries of Readability -- Encryption and Decryption of the Human World -- World Chronicle or World Formula -- A Robinsonian World Against the Newtonian World -- Anticipations of the Nineteenth Century -- The Hamburg Book of Nature and its Reflection in KoÌ⁸nigsberg -- Signs on Foreheads, Signs in the Sky -- "How Readable the Book of Nature is Becoming . . ." -- "The World Must Be Romanticized" -- The Idea of the Absolute Book -- A Book on Nature as a Book of Nature -- The Empty World Book -- Preparation for the Interpretation of Dreams -- Making Dreams Readable -- The Genetic Code and its Readers. |
Language Note: | Translated from the German. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2022). |
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Genre: | electronic book > ebook |