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Project
‘Imminence of a revelation’: Blumenberg, Lacan, and the genesis of significance in myth.
By using Hans Blumenberg’s myth theory, this research project aims to outline the critical role the problematic concept of ‘myth’ still has to play in the West’s philosophical self-reflection. The philosophical anthropology of Blumenberg is combined with the psychoanalytic-linguistic theories of Jacques Lacan to inquire into the paradoxical character of central concepts as truth, symbolisation and significance.
Date:1 Jan 2007 → 30 Dec 2012
Keywords:logos, mythology, Homer, Lacan, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, myth, narration, Hesiod, Blumenberg
Disciplines:Theory and methodology of linguistics, Biological and physiological psychology, Other psychology and cognitive sciences, Other languages and literary studies, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Anthropology, Philosophy, Theory and methodology of language studies, Literary studies, Language studies, General psychology