The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
Author: Blumenberg, Hans
ISBN: 9780262521055
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 21 Oct 1985
Pages: 712
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9780262521055
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 21 Oct 1985
Pages: 712
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
