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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age Paperback by Hans Blumenberg
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age Paperback by Hans Blumenberg
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- Publisher: The MIT Press (1985-10-21)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 712 pages
- ISBN-13: 9780262521055
- Item Weight: 368.55 grams
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In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith'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.
About the Author
Hans Blumenberg, the creator of metaphorology, was one of the most important German philosophers of the latter 20th century.
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