Historical Discontinuity and Awareness of Finiteness on H. Blumenberg’s work. On irreducibility of Modernity to Nihilism
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Historical Discontinuity, Awareness of Finiteness, Irreducibility, H. Blumenberg, R. Koselleck, Conceptual History
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Modern claim of being a completely different age with reference to the past, due to an acute sense of contingency and conceptual politicity (such as historical discontinuity and awareness of finiteness) is related to the problem of sliding towards nihilism. Based on that irreducibility, the aim of the present paper is to collate The Legitimacy of Modern Age, by H. Blumenberg, facing the “phenomenological-hermeneutic” tradition, represented here by R. Kosselleck. We address the issue divided in two parts, according to two different approaches. First, we present a “theorical-political” point of view (2); and second, we discuss the question from an “ethical-political” angle (3).Downloads
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Gascón L. A. (2017). Historical Discontinuity and Awareness of Finiteness on H. Blumenberg’s work. On irreducibility of Modernity to Nihilism. Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, 20(2), 307-324. https://doi.org/10.5209/RPUB.56472
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