Posthumus work of Blumenberg: Beschreibung des Menschen

Abstract

Beschreibund des Menschen is one of the posthumous works of Blumenberg. Two thirds of the book give an account of Husserl’s phenomenology and its critique. What brings face to face Blumenberg with phenomenology is the search for a philosophical anthropology in Husserl’s phenomenology. This defeat is because of his defence of a pure conscience, that means, never corrupted by psychologism and historicism. The second part of Beschreibung des Menschen is about the analysis in depth of categories, which are well – known in Blumenberg’s philosophical anthropology. He addresses the concepts of horizon, Lebenswelt, corporality, visibility, distance, gaining time, etc. There is no relevant news regarding to his earlier work, but what he gets deals with an increase of rigor and precision on his philosophical anthropology.