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.
- Author
- Hans Blumenberg, Robert M. Wallace
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 712
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780262521055
- Genres
- philosophy, history, theory, religion, politics
- Release date
- 1985
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