布鲁门伯格丰富且广博的精神产品却围绕着一个单一中心，即所谓的现代性之起源与正当性。在与卡尔·洛维特、卡尔·施米特、艾瑞克·沃格林的争辩之中，他将现代性理解为“对灵知主义的第二次克服”，同时尖锐地批评传统的研究方法，为观照现代的起源探索新的视角。以哥白尼天文学革命为个案，他以范式转变及其效果历史为视角，探索现代性起源过程的真正本质。通过神话研究，布鲁门伯格表明，为了克服实在专制主义产生的焦虑，人类就必须建构一个象征的宇宙，也就是说，为了反抗偶然的压迫，人类努力将其“形象专制主义”化为“制序”。在布鲁门伯格的思想中，存在“尼采化”与“新康德化”两种对立的趋势，二者通过一种共同的倾向而彼此关联，这种倾向是同时赋予领悟世界的神话体系与哲学体系以普遍性。
Blumenberg's rich and extensive spiritual products revolve around a single center，the so-called origin and legitimacy of modernity.In the debate with Karl Löwith，Karl Schmitt and Eric Voegelin，he understood modernity as “the second overcoming of Gnosticism”，and at the same time sharply criticized the traditional research methods to explore a new perspective for examining the origin of modernity.Taking Copernicus' astronomical revolution as an example，he explored the true nature of the origin process of modernity from the perspective of paradigm shift and its effect history.Through the study of myth，Blumenberg shows that in order to overcome the anxiety generated by the actual despotism，human beings must have a symbolic universe，that is to say，in order to resist the accidental oppression，human beings strive to turn their “absolutism of image” into a systematic order.In Blumenberg's thought，there are two opposing trends of “Nietzschean turn” and “Neo-Kantian turn”，which are related to each other through a common tendency，which is to give universality to both the mythological system and the philosophical system of the understanding world.
