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Blumenberg, Hans

 
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Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hans Blumenberg, the creator of metaphorology, was one of the most important German philosophers of the latter 20th century.

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