Modern mythic meaning: Blumenberg contra Nietzsche

History of the Human Sciences 6 (4):37-56 (1993)
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Nothing surprised the promoters of the Enlightenment more, and left them standing more incredulously before the failure of what they thought were their ultimate exertions, than the survival of the contemptible old stories - the continuation of work on myth. (Blumenberg, 1985: 274)1

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Horstmann, Siep, and German Idealism.Robert B. Pippin - 1994 - European Journal of Philosophy 2 (1):85-96.

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The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.J. F. Lyotard - 1985 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63:520.
The birth of tragedy ; and, The genealogy of morals.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 1956 - New York: Anchor Books. Edited by Francis Golffing & Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
Modernism as a Philosophical Problem. On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture, 2e éd.Robert B. Pippin - 2002 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 192 (1):114-115.

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