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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 HearingThe 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 PerspectiveThe 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 AutonomyAlberti'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 NarcissusThe 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

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