Abstract
The philosophy of Enlightenment, philosophy of a century represented by the image of light and described in its global meaning starting from its lexicon, is for Hans Blumenberg a fundamental reference for modern thought. In his work, the philosophy of Enlightenment is articulated into different perspectives : historical, philosophical and hermeneutic. Through history, philosophy, semantics, hermeneutic and linguistics, according to Blumenberg, the Enlightenment shows its certainties, its doubts, its aspirations and its failures. It is thus created an intellectual “style” both “particular and distinctive” towards the past. Such are the metaphors of light, of book, of shipwreck : “absolute metaphors” of truth, knowledge of the world and risk of existence, and, in the same time, main images of modern culture. During the Enlightenment, these images acquire indeed a specific orientation towards the future.
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