Legitimacy of the Modern Age

Name: Legitimacy of the Modern Age
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ISBN: 9780262521055

ISBN-10: 0262521059

ISBN-13: 9780262521055

Edition: 1985

Authors: Hans Blumenberg, Robert M. Wallace, Robert M. Wallace

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In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Louml;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. Hans Blumenberg is professor of philosophy at the University of Muuml;nster. The Legitimacy of the Modern Age is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social…

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/21/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 712
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English

Hans Blumenberg, the creator of metaphorology, was one of the most important German philosophers of the latter 20th century.