{"product_id":"the-legitimacy-of-the-modern-age-9780262521055","title":"The Legitimacy of the Modern Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hans Blumenberg | Robert M. Wallace\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Zen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46894049820823,"sku":"9780262521055","price":9090.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262521055.webp?v=1770321123","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-legitimacy-of-the-modern-age-9780262521055","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}