| The Legitimacy of the Modern Age Revised Edition Contributor(s): Blumenberg, Hans (Author), Wallace, Robert M. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0262521059 ISBN-13: 9780262521055 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $79.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1985 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Lowith'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. Hans Blumenberg is professor of philosophy at the University of Munster. "The Legitimacy of the Modern Age "is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy. |
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| Library of Congress Subjects: - 01 |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Zen - Religion | Christianity - Catholic |
| Dewey: 261.243 |
| Physical Information: 1.55" H x 6.02" W x 8.97" (2.40 lbs) 712 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blumenberg, Hans: - Hans Blumenberg, the creator of metaphorology, was one of the most important German philosophers of the latter 20th century. |