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METODA DECONSTRUCȚIEI ISTORIEI LA HANS BLUMENBERG
THE METHOD OF DECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY ON HANS BLUMENBERG

Author(s): Ionuț Răduică
Subject(s): Anthropology, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: Blumenberg; hystory; deconstruction method; phenomenological anthropology; hermeneutics; modernity; postmodernity;

Summary/Abstract: This article is focused on the Blumenberg’s deconstruction structure of history. The main aim of such philosophical deconstruction, that engages the German philosopher in a vast intellectual adventure, is mere the modernity, the epoch that we live in (the postmodernity in a part of it). The first issues here are a) how can history be understood since it is `in motion` and since b) it resulted from the human act. The Blumenberg’s interpretation assumed by this article consists in analyzing the anthropological scheme and displaying how – and in what meaning – history is made by humans. In what concern the deconstruction method itself, the article shows that Blumenberg built his framework by four perspectives: metaphorology, intellectual, scientific and dialectical deconstructions. Another type of perspective could be added here – the conceptual deconstruction – but since it is implicit in Blumenberg’s philosophy it is preferred to be kept outside of explicit methods or perspectives.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 156-166
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian