The Dark Of Night

Anna Wertz, “The Genesis of Hans Blumenberg’s Legitimacy of the Modern Age” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2003), 12:

. . . while Blumenberg’s work continued to earn him growing public attention, the man himself became increasingly harder to find. He spent a good deal of his life in partial hiding, preferring to work in the dark of night and sometimes spending long stretches of time without seeing anyone, let alone giving interviews—the last photograph taken of him is from 1960.