The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
- ISBN-10
- 0262521059
- ISBN-13
- 9780262521055
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 712
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985-10-21
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- Hans Blumenberg
Description
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.
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