Farewell to Matters of Principle

This book is the latest addition to the Od?on series a multidisciplinary series devoted to original works and translations by European writers in the areas of literature criticism philosophy history and politics. An English translation of the German best-seller Abschied vom Prinzipiellen the book offers a series of essays that present a philosophy of human morality critical of philosophical utopianism. Marquard widely considered the heir of Gadamer Habermas and Blumenberg describes his role as skeptical philosopher and discusses the 18th-century formation of such themes and disciplines as aesthetics philosophical anthropology philosophy of history the nature of myth and attempts to account for it and hermeneutics.