The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262521055)

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
ISBN-10: 0262521059
ISBN-13: 9780262521055
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 10/21/1985
Pages: 712
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.02w x 1.55d