Matysik, Tracie:
Hans Blumenberg's Multiple Modernities : A Spinozist Supplement to 'Legitimacy of the Modern Age'

In: The Germanic Review 90, 1 (2015), 21-41

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Metaphysics / ontology, Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Anthropology / psychology / doctrine of affections / body and mind, Reception history, Miscellaneous
Subject: E
Subject (individuals): Adorno, Theodor W. ; Blumenberg, Hans ; Horkheimer, Max ; Schmitt, Carl

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: The authoer reads Blumenberg's article Self-Preservation and Inertia" (engl. 1983) with its special reference to Spinoza as an implicitly discussion with and critique of Carl Schmitt's and Max Horkheimer's (as well as Theodor W. Adorno's) condemnation of the principle of self-preservation that finally results in intrumental reason

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