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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

Part of Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought

Author Hans Blumenberg
Translated by Robert M. Wallace
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The MIT Press
On sale Oct 21, 1985 | 712 Pages | 9780262521055
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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.
Hans Blumenberg, the creator of metaphorology, was one of the most important German philosophers of the latter 20th century.
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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.

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

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