Hans Blumenberg
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
Hans Blumenberg
Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) was professor for Philosophy at the University of Münster.
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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 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. (book description of the English edition published by MIT Press)
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Realität und Realismus/Reality and Realism (2020)
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Die nackte Wahrheit/The Naked Truth (2019)
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Schriften zur Technik/Writings on Technology (2015)
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Briefwechsel 1961–1981/Correspondence 1961–1981 (2013)
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Quellen, Ströme, Eisberge/Sources, Streams, Icebergs (2012)
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Löwen/Lions (2010)
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Theorie der Lebenswelt/Theory of the Life-World (2010)
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Geistesgeschichte der Technik/Geistesgeschichte der Technik (2009)
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Briefwechsel 1971-1978/Correspondence and other materials (2007)
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Der Mann vom Mond/The Man from the Moon (2007)
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Theorie der Unbegrifflichkeit/Theorie der Unbegrifflichkeit (2007)
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Beschreibung des Menschen/Description of Man (2006)
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Die Verführbarkeit des Philosophen/The Corruptibility of the Philosopher (2000)
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Die Lesbarkeit der Welt/The Legibility of the World (1986)
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Arbeit am Mythos/Work on Myth (1979)
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Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer/Shipwreck with Spectator (1979)
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