The philosopher Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) is considered one of the leading thinkers of the postwar German. His research devoted to the history of Western thought revolve around the importance of myth and metaphor for the self-consciousness that has the modern individual._x000D_
Blumenberg studied Philosophy and Germanic in Paderborn, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Kiel and received his doctorate in 1947. He held professorships of Philosophy at the Universities of Hamburg, Giessen, Bochum and Munster. A founding member of the research group "Poetics and Hermeneutics" and was awarded several prizes, including Sigmund Freud Prize of the German Academy of Language_x000D_
and Literature. Several titles of his major work has been translated into Castilian. Among them are the realities we live (Barcelona, 1999), The readability of the world (Barcelona, 2000), concern that crosses the river (Barcelona 2001) and, recently, work on the myth (Barcelona, 2003) and Paradigms for a metaphorology (Madrid, 2003).