{"product_id":"rigorism-of-truth-moses-the-egyptian-and-other-writings-on-freud-and-arendt-paperback-softback-9781501716720","title":"Rigorism of Truth; \"Moses the Egyptian\" and Other Writings on Freud and Arendt (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501716720","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRigorism of Truth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003e\"Moses the Egyptian\" and Other Writings on Freud and Arendt\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHans Blumenberg (Author), Joe Paul Kroll (Translated by), Ahlrich Meyer (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501716720\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 February 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e108 pages, 3 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 5 b\u0026amp;w line drawings - 5 Line drawings, black and white - 3 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlumenberg's essay brilliantly demonstrates his thesis on the subjectivity of 'truth.'\u003c\/p\u003e (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) \u003cp\u003eThis work is recommended to everyone interested in Blumenberg's thinking and work.\u003c\/p\u003e (literaturkritik.de) \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e (Critical Inquiry) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRigorism of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e has been received as a critically important text revealing Blumenberg's political interests. It gives insight into certain more articulated political views that remained hidden during his lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e (Phenomenological Reviews) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRigorism of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e is as philosophically complex as the book is biographically and politically convoluted.\u003c\/p\u003e (Arendt Studies) \u003cp\u003eThe book is an impassioned reflection on the power and failure of the rigorous pursuit of truth by two prominent Jewish intellectuals of the 21st century, namely, Sigmund Freud and Hannah Arendt. Blumenberg's posthumously published views, originally taken from his Nachlass, opens up important questions: what can truth achieve for our understanding of human political reality? What is the role of myth in the world of human affairs?\u003c\/p\u003e (Philosophy in Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \"Moses the Egyptian\"—the centerpiece of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRigorism of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg addresses two defining figures in the intellectual history of the twentieth century: Sigmund Freud and Hannah Arendt.\u003c\/b\u003e Unpublished during his lifetime, this essay analyzes Freud's \u003ci\u003eMoses and Monotheism\u003c\/i\u003e (1939) and Arendt's \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), and discovers in both a principled rigidity that turns into recklessness because it is blind to the politics of the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOffering striking insights into the importance of myth in politics and the extent to which truth can be tolerated in adversity, the essay also provides one of the few instances where Blumenberg reveals his thinking about Judaism and Zionism. \u003ci\u003eRigorism of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e also includes commentaries by Ahlrich Meyer that give a fuller understanding of the philosopher's engagement with Freud, Arendt, and the Eichmann trial, as well as situating these reflections in the broader context of Blumenberg's life and thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685325369624,"sku":"9781501716720","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rigorism-of-truth-moses-the-egyptian-and-other-writings-on-freud-and-arendt-paperback-softback-9781501716720","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}