Abstract:This paper explores how Blumenberg narrates the history of modernity as a second overcoming of Gnosticism. This detour through late antiquity illuminates the full meaning of his idea of modernity. Blumenberg develops important methodological insights about historical change, the threshold between epochs, etc. that appear in The Legitimacy of the Modern Age. We see the central role of the interpretation of Gnosticism but also of New Testament eschatology. Both are conceived as historical catalysts that provoke modernity's emergence but remain alien to its result. Thus the references to Gnosticism and surrounding contemporary discourses are essential for Blumenbeg's account of modernity.

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教条的历史和现代性的故事：现代作为“诺斯替主义的第二次克服”

摘要：本文探讨了布鲁门伯格如何将现代性的历史描述为对诺斯替主义的第二次克服。这段穿越古代晚期的迂回曲折阐明了他的现代性思想的全部含义。布鲁门伯格对出现在《现代合法性》中的历史变迁、时代之间的界限等提出了重要的方法论见解。我们看到诺斯替主义和新约末世论的解释的核心作用。两者都被认为是引发现代性出现但与其结果相异的历史催化剂。因此，对诺斯替主义和周围当代话语的引用对于布卢门贝格的现代性解释是必不可少的。