The Legitimacy Of The Modern Age

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In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl L?with's well-knownthesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the worldfrom outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies aprocess at work within history, operating through an internal logic that ultimatelyexpresses human choices and is legitimized by human self-assertion, by man'sresponsibility for his own fate.Hans Blumenberg is professor of philosophy at theUniversity of M?nster. The Legitimacy of the Modern Age is included in the seriesStudies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

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