The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

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: Hans Blumenberg
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 10/21/1985
Pages: 712
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.02w x 1.55d
ISBN13: 9780262521055
ISBN10: 0262521059
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Zen
- Religion | Christianity | Catholic