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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age - Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought New edition
Hans Blumenberg
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age - Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought New edition
Hans Blumenberg
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.
712 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 21, 1985 |
ISBN13 | 9780262521055 |
Publishers | MIT Press Ltd |
Pages | 712 |
Dimensions | 228 × 155 × 47 mm · 1.09 kg |
Language | English |
Translator | Wallace, Robert M. |
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