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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Rigorism of truth

"Moses the Egyptian" and other writings on Freud and Arendt

Hans Blumenberg

edited byAhlrich Meyer

Translated by Joe Paul Kroll

Abstract

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 Unpublished during his lifetime, this essay analyzes Freud’s Moses and Monotheism (1939) and Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), and discovers in both a principled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 into recklessness because it is blind to the politics of the unknown.

Publication details

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Place: Ithaca

Year: 2018

Pages: 108

Series: signale|TRANSFER: German Theory in Translation

ISBN (hardback): 9781501704819

Full citation:

Blumenberg Hans (2018) Rigorism of truth: "Moses the Egyptian" and other writings on Freud and Arendt. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.