Considered by some scholars to be a true "manifesto" of the Bog- lumian project, Paradigms for a metaphorology is, to a large extent, an attempt to answer the question: under what assumptions can metaphors have legitimacy in philosophical language? This approach already presupposes a philosophical, and also historical-philosophical ideal, marked by the Cartesian (and also Husserlian) methodological consciousness, which makes the terminological-conceptual precision an ideal, the epistemic ideal, and which consequently denies or diminishes the legitimacy of those forms of language that, due to their imprecise or traslatious character, do not yet reach -or can never reach- the intellectual clarity of a mental content reducible to a formula. Philosopher above all, and despite everything, Blumenberg accumulates historical, anthropological, literary, philological, astronomical, musical and theological knowledge; knowledge that links with a secret art -and at times irritating- in cryptic nervous texts, lucid, studded with references without apparent linkage whose unity only the reader, if he can, is called to project. However, perhaps it is not one of these aspects of his activity as a scholar that has helped to shape his intellectual image. And for no one is it a secret that, on the other hand, are their "metaphorological" projects, their research on the metaphor (s) and the function that it (s) plays in the life of the spirit They earned the respect of their peers.