Rigorism of Truth: Moses the Egyptian and Other Writings on Freud and Arendt

by Hans Blumenberg

Book Overview

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 Unpublished during his lifetime, this essay analyzes Freud's Moses and Monotheism (1939) and Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), and discovers in both a principled rigidity that turns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501716727
• ISBN13: 9781501716720
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher