Download This PaperModernity and Secularization in 'The Legitimacy of the Modern Age' by Hans Blumenberg
8 Pages Posted: 11 Aug 2011 Last revised: 3 Sep 2011
Date Written: August 10, 2011
Abstract
This paper is about the trials of modernity through the category of 'secularization', and the answer Blumenberg gave to thinkers as Karl Löwith and Carl Schmitt. It underlines also the analogies, and the differences, between Blumenberg and Voegelin.
Keywords: Löwith (Karl), Blumenberg (Hans), Voegelin (Eric), Schmitt (Carl), Modern Ages, Secularization, Religion
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Gontier, Thierry and Gontier, Thierry, Modernity and Secularization in 'The Legitimacy of the Modern Age' by Hans Blumenberg (August 10, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1907690 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1907690
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