In a roundabout way. Thinking after Hans Blumenberg

Without having attended school, the work of philosopher Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) became one of the most influential of our time. Thanks to the continuous publications from his estate, it exerts an ever-growing impact. Since his first reading of "Shipwreck with Spectator," it has become one of the enduring references for Andreas Steffens in his own contributions to philosophical anthropology and aesthetics, drawing from Blumenberg's favorite virtue of reflectiveness and the history of his influence. It is as fragmentary and open as its subject seems to be inexhaustible.