Farewell to Matters of Principle Philosophical Studies

This book is a series of translated essays covering German philosophy, literary theory, and modern intellectual history. Odo Marquard is considered the natural heir to Gadamer, Habermas, and Blumenberg, and here discusses a number of different topics: his role as 'skeptical' philosopher; the formation during the 18th century of modern 'themes' and 'disciplines' such as aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of history; the nature of myth and attempts to account forit, from Schelling to Levi-Strauss; and the question of hermeneutics.Marquard, Odo is the author of 'Farewell to Matters of Principle Philosophical Studies' with ISBN 9780195051148 and ISBN 0195051149.