Hans Blumenberg, lecteur et interprète de l'œuvre de Copernic
The aim of this article is to analyse Hans Blumenberg’s reinterpretation of the Copernican revolution in his book on the genesis of Copernican world : Die Genesis der kopernikanischen Welt (1975). The main problem is to determine why such an event was impossible before Renaissance, since Aristarch...
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2012
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The aim of this article is to analyse Hans Blumenberg’s reinterpretation of the Copernican revolution in his book on the genesis of Copernican world : Die Genesis der kopernikanischen Welt (1975). The main problem is to determine why such an event was impossible before Renaissance, since Aristarch of Samos had unsuccessfully conceived a heliocentric system in Antiquity. Correlatively, what kind of changes among historical conditions of early modern thought made possible a progressive emergence of copernicanism ? Blumenberg’s complex answer requires a peculiar two-faced methodology : a preparatory history called “Vorgeschichte ” which is controlled by a history of the real effects (“Wirkungsgeschichte ”) produced in the world by an intellectual changes. Thanks to this double perspective, Blumenberg is striving to show that Copernicus was neither a “foreign body” in his time nor a relay of the secularization thesis, but an agent of self-affirmation (“Selbstbehauptung ”) of man proper to modern times. |
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