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.Hans Blumenberg is professor of philosophy at the
University of Munster. The Legitimacy of the Modern Age is included
in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited
by Thomas McCarthy."
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