Hans Blumenberg: critica dell'Illuminismo ed ermeneutica del mito

The paper aims at exploring the relationship between myth, Enlightenment and Modernity in Blumenberg’s thought. Blumenberg’s critical hermeneutics is deeply related to debates within a broad philosophical field that has its roots in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectical of Enlighentment. Basing upon a contextualisation of Blumenberg’s position with particular regard to the dialectical insight on Myth and to Cassirer’s notion of symbol, the paper attempts to focus the central role played by Nietzsche’s Philosophy concerning the relationship between theology and philosophy of history.