Agata Bielik-Robson is a Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK and at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her publications include The Saving Lie. Harold Bloom
and
Deconstruction (2011), Judaism in Contemporary Thought. Traces and Influence (co-edited with Adam Lipszyc, 2014), Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos (2014), and Another Finitude: Messianic Vitalism and Philosophy (2019). 

Daniel Whistler is Reader in Modern European Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His publications include The Schelling-Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801: Nature and Identity (2020), The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Theology (2017) and After the Postmodern and the Postsecular: News Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion (2010).

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)