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Unpublished during his lifetime, this essay analyzes Freud\'s Moses and Monotheism (1939) and Arendt\'s Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), and discovers in both a principled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