Secularization, a valid category? : A reappraisal of the Löwith-Blumenberg debate around the rise of modernity
Abstract: Karl Löwith’s Meaning in History presents the emergence of modern philosophy of history as a secularization of medieval theology of history. His thesis holds that modern historical consciousness transposes into the immanent frame a constitutively transcendent element: the Christian history of salvation. In The Legitimacy of the Modern Age Hans Blumenberg impugns Löwith’s theory, by arguing that it works on the erroneous assumption that there would be a substantial content originally possessed by medieval Christianity and only later illegitimately appropriated by modernity.
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| Language: | eng |
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Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Centro de Estudiantes de Filosofía
2020
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| Subjects: | SECULARIZACION, FILOSOFIA DE LA HISTORIA, TRASCENDENCIA, INMANENCIA, ESCATOLOGIA, |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/11039 https://doi.org/10.46553/tab.16.2020.p53-69 |
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