LIONS

For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kári Driscoll, collects thirty -two of Blumenbergs philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great preoccupations: met aphors and anecdotes as non-philosophical forms of knowledge. Each of these short texts, sparkling with erudition and humor, is devo ted to a peculiar leonine presenceor, in many cases, absencein literature, art, philosophy, religion, and politics. From Ecclesias tes to the ...[Read more]