The Genesis of the Copernican World

by Hans Blumenberg and Hans Blumberg

Book Overview

This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity. It provides an important corrective to the view of science as an autonomous enterprise and presents a new account of the history of interpretations of the significance of the heavens for man.

This book is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026252144X
• ISBN13: 9780262521444
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 826 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher