Hans Blumenberg is undoubtedly one of the great, solitary figures in 20th-century philosophy. In a unique way, he managed to connect the history of philosophy with anthropological and other philosophical questions, drawing cross-connections to literature as well as to everyday, seemingly trivial events and experiences. Blumenberg's books offer a reading experience "for which there is no parallel within philosophy," as Henning Ritter wrote in his obituary for Blumenberg. This also applies to "Work on Myth," which is now available for the first time in a paperback edition, where Blumenberg, with philological precision and the art of a brilliant exegete, addresses the philosopher's work on myth. A classic. Hans Blumenberg (1920 - 1996) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Münster. His work.