Description: In "Moses the Egyptian"--the centerpiece of Rigorism of Truth, the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg addresses two defining figures in the intellectual history of the twentieth century: Sigmund Freud and Hannah Arendt. Unpublished during his lifetime, this essay analyzes Freud's Moses and Monotheism (1939) and Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem...
Brief description: Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) was Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of Münster and the author of books including Paradigms for a Metaphorology (also in Cornell's Signale series), The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, The Genesis of the Copernican World, and Work on Myth.
Review Quotes:
The Reader is a kind of belated debutante ball for Hans Blumenberg inviting a new audience to view Blumenberg not only at his entrance to scholarly life in the 1940s but also to key moments in his ascent of the rarefied staircase of German intellectual history.... A large and bounteous book.
-- "Critical Inquiry"