The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

by Hans Blumenberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262521059
• ISBN13: 9780262521055
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 712 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher