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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

Paperback • 1985

The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

By Hans Blumenberg

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In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Loewith'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 f...Show more

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1985

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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

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