Interrogating Modernity

Part One: Overcoming Gnosticism

Chapter 1 : I Hurt, Therefore I am: Descartes with Blumenberg (and Job), (Agata Bielik-Robston).

Chapter 2: Legitimacy of Nihilism: Blumenberg''s Post-Gnosticism (Elad Lapidot)

Chapter 3: Blumenberg, Latour and the Apocalypse (Willem Styfhals)

Part Two: Political Theologies of Modernity

Chapter 4: The Sovereign Position of the World: Towards a Political Theology of Modernity (after Blumenberg) (Joseph Albernaz, Kirill Cepurin)

Chapter 5: Interrogating John Locke and the Propriety of Appropriation with Blumenberg and Voegelin (Lissa McCullough)

Chapter 6: Political Legitimacy and Founding Myths (Zevnep Talay Turner)

Part Three: Competing Visions of Modernity

Chapter 7: Trial and Crisis: Blumenberg and Husserl on the Genesis and Meaning of Modern Science (Robert Buch)

Chapter 8: Infinite Progress and the Burdens of Biography (Charles Turner)

Chapter 9: The Ideal of Optics and the Opacity of Life: Blumenberg on Modernity and Myth (Oriane Petteni)

Part Four: Modernity and Method

Chapter 10: World-Modelling and Cartesian Method: Blumenberg''s Hyperopia (Adi Efal-Lautenschlager)

Chapter 11: Umbesetzung - Reoccupation in Blumenbergian Modernity (Sonja Feger)

Chapter 12: Modernising Blumenberg (Daniel Whistler)