The Analogical Turn: Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part I: Nicholas of Cusa: Pioneer of a Forgotten Path Into the Modern Age -- 1. Cusa's Path to the "Wisdom of Unknowing" -- 2. The Legacy of Dionysius the Areopagite -- 3. Wisdom Sho...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Grand Rapids
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co
2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Reviews: | The Analogical Turn. Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa (2015) (Hollingsworth, Andrea)
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| Series/Journal: | Interventions
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| Further subjects: | B
Civilization, Modern
B Electronic books B Nicholas ; of Cusa, Cardinal ; 1401-1464 |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Hoff, Johannes: The Analogical Turn : Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa. - Grand Rapids : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,c2013. - 9780802868909 |
| Summary: | Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part I: Nicholas of Cusa: Pioneer of a Forgotten Path Into the Modern Age -- 1. Cusa's Path to the "Wisdom of Unknowing" -- 2. The Legacy of Dionysius the Areopagite -- 3. Wisdom Shouts Outside In the Alleys and Squares -- 4. The Growing Gap Between Science and Liturgy As a Focal Problem -- Part II: Nicholas of Cusa and the Genealogy of Modern Concepts of Space and Autonomy -- 5. Prologue: The Liturgical Staging of Modern Perspective In De Visione Dei -- Veronica-Vera Icona -- The Coincidence of Opposites -- The Coincidence of Vision and Hearing -- The Coincidence of the Elapsing Age With the Age to Come -- 6. The Prehistory of the Modern Concepts of Perspective and Space -- Alhazen's Discovery of the An-Iconic "Perspective" of the Islamic World -- The Representationalist Dualism of the Franciscan Tradition -- Thomas Aquinas's Realist Alternative -- Cusa's Radicalization of Dominican Realism -- The Destabilization of the Viewer's Position In the Fourteenth Century -- 7. The Formation of the Modern "World Picture" In Renaissance Italy -- Biagio da Parma and Cusa -- Biagio, Alberti, and the Invention of Geometrical Perspective -- The Artistic Origins of the Modern Concept of Space -- Alberti, Descartes, and the Emergence of Western Nihilism -- 8. Cusa's Response to the Emergence of the Modern Concept of Space -- The "Florentine Stammtisch" As a Point of Crystallization of the Emerging World -- Cusa, Alberti, and the Conundrum of Space -- Leibniz's Algebraic "Solution" to the Medieval Conundrum -- Cusa's Indivisible Remainder -- The "Misty Space" of Cusa and Van Eyck -- The Visibility of the Invisible In Cusa's "Misty Space" -- 9. Cusa's Response to the Emergence of the Modern Concept of Autonomy Alberti's Winged Eye As Emblem of the Emerging Age -- The Plurality of Perspectives In Cusa's Alternative Vision -- Cusa's Transformation of the Pre-modern Ontology of Images -- Alberti's Invention of Modern "Virtual Space" -- Alberti, Kant, and the Origins of the Modern Idea of "Art As Religion" -- Alberti's Rehabilitation of Narcissus As Harbinger of a Narcissistic Age -- Part III: Cusa's Alternative Vision of the Age to Come -- 10. Cusa's Resistance to the Hyper-Reflexivity of the Narcissistic Age -- Cusa's Adoption of Alberti's Narcissus -- The Unmasking of Egological Concepts of Intersubjectivity In Post-Modernity -- The Paranoiac Features of Post-Modern Accounts of the Invisible -- Certeau's Unfinished Attempt to Recover Cusa's Alternative Account -- 11. Cusa's Inversion of Modern Perspective -- The Incompatibility of Cusa's Ontology With Idealist Accounts of the Invisible -- The Ontological Difference Between Temporal and Atemporal Modes of Being -- The Incompatibility of Cusa's Realism With Romantic Accounts of the Invisible -- The Trinitarian and Christological Background of Cusa's Symbolic Realism -- The Liturgical and Ecclesiological Orientation of Cusa's Symbolic Realism -- 12. Cusa's Holistic Alternative to the Analytic Rationality of Modernity -- The Coincidence of Vision and Hearing As Key to Cusa's Common-Sense Realism -- The Liturgical Crisis of the Late Middle Ages -- The Phono- and Oculocentric Double Movement of the Emerging Age -- Cusa's Late Attempt to Recover the Common-Sense Realism of the Middle Ages -- 13. Cusa's Holistic Alternative to Analytic Accounts of Individuality -- The Modern Dichotomy Between Atomization and Totalization -- The Hierarchical Logic of Cusa's Participative Egalitarianism -- The Doxological Sources of Cusa's Participative Pluralism Cusa's Ultra-Nominalist Rejection of Analytic Accounts of Individuality -- Soteriological Implications of Cusa's Alternative to the Modern Dichotomy -- 14. Cusa's Apocalyptic Response to the Liturgical Crisis of His Age -- The Impasse of Cusa's Anachronistic Vision of the Age to Come -- Cusa's Deconstruction of Modal Ontologies of the Possible -- The Displacement of the Body of Christ As Prototype of an Impossible Possibility -- The Habit of Metanoia As Key to Cusa's Account of the (Im-)Possible -- 15. Cusa's Ontology of Desire and the Body of Christ -- The Irreducibility of Face-to-Face Encounters As an Ontological Problem -- Cusa's Synthesis of the Medieval Concept of Love -- The Sacramental and Ecclesial Context of Cusa's Ontology of Love -- Trinitarian and Christological Implications of Cusa's Ontology of Love -- Cusa's Figura Paradigmatica As Skhēma of His Inversion of Modern Perspective -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1467439029 |