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The History of Dogma and the Story of Modernity: The Modern Age as "Second Overcoming of Gnosticism"

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Published in 2019 at "Journal of the History of Ideas"

DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2019.0004

Abstract: Abstract:This paper explores how Blumenberg narrates the history of modernity as a second overcoming of Gnosticism. This detour through late antiquity illuminates the full meaning of his idea of modernity. Blumenberg develops important methodological insights… read more here.

Keywords: modernity; overcoming gnosticism; history; second overcoming ... See more keywords