Contesting Modernity in the German Secularization Debate: Karl Löwith, Hans Blumenberg and Carl Schmitt in Polemical Contexts

by Sjoerd Griffioen

In Contesting Modernity in the German Secularization Debate, Sjoerd Griffioen investigates the polemics between Karl L?with, Hans Blumenberg and Carl Schmitt on the role of religion in modernity. He analyzes their contributions to the development of the broader German secularization debate between the 1950s and 1980s. As this development is traced, special attention is paid to how after 1968 this debate increasingly centered on Schmitt's notion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004331425
• ISBN13: 9789004331426
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 504 Pages