The Legitimacy of the Modern Age by Hans Blumenberg, Robert M. Wallace
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
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Hans Blumenberg, Robert M. Wallace
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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

Hans Blumenberg, Robert M. Wallace with Hans Blumenberg (Translator)

missing page info Add in missing page information • 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 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 ...

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