Georg Simmel, Hans Blumenberg, and philosophical anthropology

In the last two decades, an increasingly attention to the anthropological propensity of his thought has emerged in the research on the work of Hans Blumenberg, but very little attention was paid to the role that Blumenberg reserved for the importance that Georg Simmel can have in the construction of a philosophical anthropology. This study aims to fill such a gap, reconstructing the various aspects that Simmel’s anthropological penchant contains according to Blumenberg’s reading: metaphors from money to life; a critique of enemy-friend distinction; gestures and myths; rhetoric and theory of nonconceptuality; the antinomic character of both philosophers.