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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Hans Blumenberg, Descartes, & the agony of modernity

A few secondary bibliographic references:

Three Intellectual Histories of Modernity: Arendt, Blumenberg, and Dewey
by Colin Koopman

Collective Self-Legislation as an Actus Impurus: A Response to Heidegger’s Critique of European Nihilism
by Hans Lindahl

Hans Blumenberg's Philosophical Anthropology: After Heidegger and Cassirer
by Vida Pavesich
Posted by Ralph Dumain at 9:43 AM
Labels: bibliography, Descartes, Enlightenment, Ernst Cassirer, Hans Blumenberg, Martin Heidegger, modernity, nihilism

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