The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
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| Management number | 231955522 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $32.00 | Model Number | 231955522 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0262521059 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0262521055 |
| Edition | 0 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The MIT Press |
| Dimensions | 6 x 1.61 x 9 inches |
| Item Weight | 2.45 pounds |
| Print length | 728 pages |
| Part of series | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought |
| Publication date | October 21, 1985 |
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