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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Lowith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an internal logic that ultimately expresses human choices and is legitimized by human self-assertion, by man's responsibility for his own fate.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 712
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780262521055
  • Genres
  • philosophy, history, theory, religion, politics
  • Release date
  • 1985