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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 10/21/1985
Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
Pages: 712
Weight: 2.4lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.02w x 1.55d
ISBN: 9780262521055
Revised Edition