Hans Blumenberg
Schiffsbuch mit Zuschauer: Paradigma einer Daseinsmetapher.
Suhrkamp Verlag, 1988. Suhrkamp Taschenbach, Wissenschaft 289. Third printing. 3518278894  93 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", is like new.

"In his 1979 study "Schiffsbuch mit Zuschauer" ("Shipwreck with Spectator"), the philosopher Hans Blumenberg compares the shipwreck metaphor and its various applications using examples from the history of philosophy and literature from antiquity to the 20th century. He thus demonstrates the changing philosophical outlook. In the appendix, "Outlook on a Theory of Non-Conceptuality," he presents his metaphorology, which states that there are insights that cannot be formulated in scientific terms but can nevertheless be illustrated with holistic imagery."