English Translation of Hans Blumenberg's DIE LESBARKEIT DER WELT (THE LEGIBILITY OF THE WORLD) (1981)
FAIN: RL-20952-86
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA 02139-4307)
Robert Marston Wallace (Project Director: July 1985 to June 2002)
To support a translation of DIE LESBARKEIT DER WELT (The Legibility of the World), a discussion of irreducible book and reading metaphors in the history of western thought, by the contemporary German philosopher Hans Blumenberg.