Metaforología y antropología en Hans Blumenberg

Abstract

The concepts of metaphorology and anthropology appear together as the title of the following article to let the reader know that they are going to be analyzed: the existing relationships between them; the lines that lead from the blumenbergian metaphorology to the anthropological thesis, which, according to human survival, legitimizes and estimates the project’s metaphorological works. Based on the underlying discussion about the eternity or the contingency of the abstract questions that the human being asks himself, we are going to argue how to relate the necessity of metaphoric answers to these questions to the anthropogenetic function of human selfpreservation. Regarding this point, we will bring up the blumenbergian critique to the freudian drive death, which ultimately releases itself from its philosophical anthropology.