Hans Blumenberg

Hans Blumenberg (192 96) was a German philosopher and intellectual historian. During his lifetime he was a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation, a professor at several universities in Germany, and cofounder of the research group Poetics and Hermeneutics. Kari Driscoll is lecturer in comparative literature at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. In 211 he was awarded the inaugural Gutekunst Prize for Young Translators.