Care Crosses the River

by Hans Blumenberg

Book Overview

In this collection of short meditations on various topics, Hans Blumenberg eschews academic ponderousness and writes in a genre evocative of Montaigne's Essais, Walter Benjamin's Denkbilder, or Adorno's Minima Moralia. Drawing upon an intellectual tradition that ranges from Aesop to Wittgenstein and from medieval theology to astrophysics, he works as a detective of ideas scouring the periphery of intellectual and philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804735808
• ISBN13: 9780804735803
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"