The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 718
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ISBN-10 : 0262521059
ISBN-13 : 9780262521055
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Download or read book The Legitimacy of the Modern Age written by Hans Blumenberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1985-10-21 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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