Nothing Fails like Success Poetics and Hermeneutics—A Postwar Initiative by Hans Blumenberg*

Theory of a practice: A foundation for Blumenberg’s metaphorology in Ricoeur’s theory of metaphor

“…The two philosophers thus show key similarities and differences: they both regard metaphor as a bridge by which the world of discourse could intervene in the changeresistant world of working assumptions, what Husserl calls 'the lifeworld' (see Philipp Stoellger's thorough treatise on Blumenberg's phenomenology of metaphor). 2 Anselm Haverkamp even claims that Ricoeur's Conflict of Interpretations (1969) was more influential on the Poetik und Hermeneutik group than Gadamer's Truth and Method (1960) (Haverkamp, 2016(Haverkamp, : 1224. Archival documents corroborate Haverkamp's claim as Blumenberg and Jacob Taubes complain about the German Research Council's Senate Commission for Conceptual History, which Gadamer ran with excessive displays of authority, like dividing participants into 'members' and 'additional participants', giving minimal information about the proceedings, and then demanding extensive preparation from participants at the last minute.…”