The History of Dogma and the Story of Modernity: The Modern Age as "Second Overcoming of Gnosticism"
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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
Modernity as Theodicy: Odo Marquard Reads Hans Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
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DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2019.0006
Abstract: Abstract:Especially in the second part of The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, Hans Blumenberg considered philosophical modernity through a reflection on theodicy. Theodicy even appeared here as constitutive for modernity, although this philosophical project of… read more here.
Keywords: modernity; theodicy; legitimacy modern; modern age ... See more keywords