The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

By:

Hans Blumenberg

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought

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In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl L with'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 Biography:

Hans Blumenberg, the creator of metaphorology, was one of the most important German philosophers of the latter 20th century.

Release date Australia

October 21st, 1985

Author

Hans Blumenberg

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Translated by Robert M. Wallace

Pages

712

Series

Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought

Dimensions

152x229x38

ISBN-13

9780262521055

Product ID

3607724

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