"A great sweeping history of the course of European thought, built on the Hegel-Heidegger scale... " Richard Rorty , The London Review of Books "It has been left for Blumenberg to write a major treatise on the metaphysical tradition which unites intellectual history with critical dissection of the concept of 'secularization': a concept that has served two generations of writers in their efforts to make sense of the modern world. "What Blumenberg has done, to put it briefly, is to describe the disintegration of the medieval world-view as a consequence of latent contradictions already present in the scholastic tradition: ultimately in the synthesis of early Christianity and neo-Platonism inherited by the European middle ages. However, this formulation supplies only the feeblest sort of pointer to the importance of a work whose author is no mere historian but an original thinker in his own right, equipped with the sort of synthesizing faculty which was the pride of German scholarship in its great age." The Times Literary Supplement "Modern science buried centuries of theological controversy. Hans Blumenberg has unearthed these controversies again, rethinking the dilemmas and dead ends of Christian dogma that provided the intellectual provocations for the scientific revolution... But Blumenberg has not merely written a scholarly, nuanced, and illuminating study of the religious background to modern science. He has also written a philosophical book, a combative response to the dim Romantic suggestion more common in Germany than America, that the modern age 'as a whole' is somehow illegitimate." Stephen Holmes , The American Political Science Review
Hans Blumenberg, the creator of metaphorology, was one of the most important German philosophers of the latter 20th century.
A great sweeping history of the course of European thought, built
on the Hegel-Heidegger scale....—Richard Rorty, The London Review
of Books
It has been left for Blumenberg to write a major treatise on the
metaphysical tradition which unites intellectual history with
critical dissection of the concept of 'secularization': a concept
that has served two generations of writers in their efforts to make
sense of the modern world. What Blumenberg has done, to put it
briefly, is to describe the disintegration of the medieval
world-view as a consequence of latent contradictions already
present in the scholastic tradition: ultimately in the synthesis of
early Christianity and neo-Platonism inherited by the European
middle ages. However, this formulation supplies only the feeblest
sort of pointer to the importance of a work whose author is no mere
historian but an original thinker in his own right, equipped with
the sort of synthesizing faculty which was the pride of German
scholarship in its great age.—The Times Literary Supplement
Modern science buried centuries of theological controversy. Hans
Blumenberg has unearthed these controversies again, rethinking the
dilemmas and dead ends of Christian dogma that provided the
intellectual provocations for the scientific revolution.... But
Blumenberg has not merely written a scholarly, nuanced, and
illuminating study of the religious background to modern science.
He has also written a philosophical book, a combative response to
the dim Romantic suggestion more common in Germany than America,
that the modern age 'as a whole' is somehow illegitimate.—Stephen
Holmes, The American Political Science Review
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