Hans Blumenberg: mito, metáfora absoluta y filosofía política

Abstract

Blumenberg was interested in three ways to make significant the reality that, in principle, have been considered marginal to philosophy: mythology, rhetoric and metaphorology. In this paper, after emphasizing that the myth's ways of meaning can be also found in modern and contemporary science, we focus on metaphorology and the problem of the theory of inconceptuability. Finally, we show that Blumenberg's absolute metaphors are a good tool for understanding the more complex versions of political philosophy and also the contemporary philosophy with a higher affinity with the negative theology.