Legitimacy Of The Modern Age
In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Loewith'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.
Auteur | | Hans Blumenberg |
Taal | | Engels |
Type | | Paperback |
Categorie | | Mens & Maatschappij |