num_pages: 728
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
titlecomplete: The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
genres: History, Cultural, Philosophy, Religion, 20th Century, Nonfiction, Theory, Politics
ratings_count: 69
publisher: The MIT Press