The Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa Hoff, Johannes. creator text Electronic books. xx Grand Rapids Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2013 monographic eng

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1 online resource (232 p.) 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 Description based upon print version of record. The Liturgical and Ecclesiological Orientation of Cusa's Symbolic Realism of Cusa, Cardinal Nicholas 1401-1464 of Cusa, Cardinal Nicholas 1401-1464 Civilization, Modern Civilization, Modern RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic RELIGION / Christianity / General BR560.S45 230 Hoff, Johannes Grand Rapids : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,c2013 9781467439022 1467439029 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1081988 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1081988 EBLCP 170603 20200709060419.0 ocn988872428 eng