The Legitimacy of the Modern AgeIn 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. |
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Contents
Status of the Concept | 3 |
Progress Exposed as Fate | 27 |
Making History So As to Exonerate God? | 53 |
The Supposed Migration of the Attribute of Infinity | 77 |
The Rhetoric of Secularizations | 103 |
Introduction | 125 |
A Systematic Comparison of the Epochal Crisis of | 145 |
The Impossibility of Escaping a Deceiving God | 181 |
Curiosity Is Enrolled in the Catalog of Vices | 309 |
Difficulties Regarding the Natural Status of the | 325 |
Preludes to a Future Overstepping of Limits | 343 |
Interest in Invisible Things within the World | 361 |
Justifications of Curiosity as Preparation for the | 377 |
Voltaire to | 403 |
Feuerbach and | 437 |
The Cusan | 455 |
Cosmogony as a Paradigm of SelfConstitution | 205 |
Introduction | 229 |
The Retraction of the Socratic Turning | 243 |
The Indifference of Epicuruss Gods | 263 |
Preparations for a Conversion and Models for the | 279 |
The World as Gods SelfRestriction | 483 |
The World as Gods SelfExhaustion | 549 |
Notes | 597 |
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