The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
Author | : Hans Blumenberg |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1985-10-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 0262521059 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780262521055 |
Rating | : 4/5 (055 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by : Hans Blumenberg
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.