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The Laughter of the Thracian Woman
Hans Blumenberg
其他書名
A Protohistory of Theory
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
, 2015-04-23
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy / Language
History / Historiography
ISBN
1623568536
9781623568535
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SZW6BwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time,
The Laughter of the Thracian Woman
describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato's
Theaetetus
dialogue: while focused on observing the stars, the early astronomer and proto-philosopher Thales of Miletus fails to see a well directly in his path and tumbles down. A Thracian servant girl laughs, amused that he sought to understand what was above him when he was not mindful of what was right in front of him.
Blumenberg sees the story as a highly sought substitute for our missing knowledge of the earliest historical events that would fit the label “theory.” By retelling the anecdote, philosophers reveal their distinctive values regarding absorption in curiosity, philosophy's past, and the demand that theorists abide by sanctioned methods and procedures. In this work and others, Blumenberg demonstrates that philosophers' most beloved images and anecdotes have become indispensable to philosophy
as
metaphors; that is, as representations whose meanings remain indefinite and invite frequent reinterpretation.