Books written by Angus Nicholls
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Myth and the Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth
This book presents a critical analysis of the theory of myth outlined by the twentieth-century German philosopher Hans Blumenberg.
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Myth and the Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth
This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg’s theory of myth.
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Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought
Bringing together a collection of experts in the fields of German Studies, Continental Philosophy, the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Psychoanalysis, this volume examines the various theorizations, representations, ...
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Myth and the Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth
myth of Gnostic dualism, the miseries of this world are attributed to the worldcreator or demiurge. ... Gnosticism—as myth—told stories about why there were bad things in the world, whereas Christian dogma made these into an exclusive ...
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In the Embrace of the Swan: Anglo-German Mythologies in Literature, the Visual Arts and Cultural Theory
... mythos-analoger Koinzidenzen bemüht.41 Kurz vor seinem endgültigen Scheitern trifft K. auf den für seinen Fall eigentlich nicht zuständigen Beamten Bürgel, den er ‚zufällig ... Formaler Mythos'. Methodische Überlegungen 38 Herwig Gottwald.