Blumenberg and Secularization
"Self-Assertion" and the Problem of Self-Realizing Teleology in History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3123938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurence Dickey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Issue | 41 |
| Pages | 151 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/488280 |
| OpenAlex | W2321856215 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Readers of New German Critique no longer require an introduction to Hans Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of Modern Age to make sense of it [henceforth, The Legitimacy]. This journal first drew attention to importance of Blumenberg's book several years ago.' Since then, The Legitimacy has been widely reviewed and acclaimed by some very able and well-known scholars (e.g., William Bouwsma, Martin Jay, and Richard Rorty).2 In these reviews, superlatives abound words like subtle, rich; and imaginative are repeatedly used in celebrating merits of Blumenberg's work.3 True, book has also been described as cumbersome, maddingly difficult, and a slow read.4 It has also been criticized for practicing old fashioned Geistesgeschichte,5 for being utterly indifferent to materialistic explanations of historical change,6 for ignoring the contribution of religious thought since Reformation to philosophical
Assertion · Epistemology · Secularization · Teleology · Computer Science · Humanities and Social Sciences · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2019 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |