The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
| Author/creator | Blumenberg, Hans Author |
| Other author | McCarthy, Tom Editor |
| Other author | Wallace, Robert M. Translator |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 709 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | German Social Thought Ser. |
| Summary | 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.<br /><br />Hans Blumenberg is professor of philosophy at the University of Munster.<i>The Legitimacy of the Modern Age</i>is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780262521055 |
| ISBN | 0262521059 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262521055 |
| Stock number | 00015994 |
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