Derunendliche Umweg: Hans Blumenbergs ,Phänomenologische Arbeiten'.

The philosopher Hans Blumenberg whose hundredth anniversary was celebrated last year is known above all for wide-ranging historicalstudies:onmyth, on philosophical metaphors, on the idea of secularization and the genealogy of the modern age. He is less well known as a criticalreader and commentator of Husserl's phenomenology. The article surveys and reviews Blumenberg's 'phenomenologicalwritings', now availableinfour separate volumes, by examining a number of prominent motifs in Blumenberg's unfinished engagement with Husserl. First, his preoccupation with Husserl's shift from suspending the natural attitude to subsequent efforts to account for its recalcitrance; then his qualifications concerning Husserl's notion of the puresubject and the lifeworld. The essay concludes withadiscussionof visibility as the key to Blumenberg's critical engagement withHusserl's phenomenology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]