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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age.
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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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jay, M., Blumenberg, H., & Wallace, R. M.
- Venue
- History and Theory
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1985-05
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 183
- ISSN
- 0018-2656 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2071416209
- Cited by
- 529
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 48.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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