The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg

The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

Hans Blumenberg with Robert M. Wallace (Translator)

712 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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