The analogical turn : rethinking modernity with Nicholas of Cusa / Johannes Hoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoff, Johannes.

Series:

Interventions.

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013.

Contents:

Part I Nicholas of Cusa: Pioneer of a Forgotten Path into the Modem Age 1

1 Cusa's Path to the "Wisdom of Unknowing" 4

2 The Legacy of Dionysius the Areopagite 10

3 Wisdom Shouts Outside in the Alleys and Squares 15

4 The Growing Gap between Science and Liturgy as a Focal Problem 18

Part II Nicholas of Cusa and the Genealogy of Modern Concepts of Space and Autonomy 25

5 Prologue: The Liturgical Staging of Modern Perspective in De visione Dei 27

Veronica-Vera Icona 27

The Coincidence of Opposites 29

The Coincidence of Vision and Hearing 30

The Coincidence of the Elapsing Age with the Age to Come 31

6 The Prehistory of the Modern Concepts of Perspective and Space 33

Alhazen's Discovery of the An-iconic "Perspective" of the Islamic World 34

The Representationalist Dualism of the Franciscan Tradition 35

Thomas Aquinas's Realist Alternative 38

Cusa's Radicalization of Dominican Realism 40

The Destabilization of the Viewer's Position in the Fourteenth Century 42

7 The Formation of the Modern "World Picture" in Renaissance Italy 44

Biagio da Parma and Cusa 44

Biagio, Alberti, and the Invention of Geometrical Perspective 47

The Artistic Origins of the Modern Concept of Space 50

Alberti, Descartes, and the Emergence of Western Nihilism 54

8 Cusa's Response to the Emergence of the Modern Concept of Space 60

The "Florentine Stammtisch" as a Point of Crystallization of the Emerging World 60

Cusa, Alberti, and the Conundrum of Space 62

Leibniz's Algebraic "Solution" to the Medieval Conundrum 65

Cusa's Indivisible Remainder 66

The "Misty Space" of Cusa and Van Eyck 69

The Visibility of the Invisible in Cusa's "Misty Space" 73

9 Cusa's Response to the Emergence of the Modern Concept of Autonomy 76

Alberti's Winged Eye as Emblem of the Emerging Age 77

The Plurality of Perspectives in Cusa's Alternative Vision 78

Cusa's Transformation of the Pre-modern Ontology of Images 80

Alberti's Invention of Modern "Virtual Space" 84

Alberti, Kant, and the Origins of the Modern Idea of "Art as Religion" 87

Alberti's Rehabilitation of Narcissus as Harbinger of a Narcissistic Age 92

Part III Cusa's Alternative Vision of the Age to Come 99

10 Cusa's Resistance to the Hyper-reflexivity of the Narcissistic Age 101

Cusa's Adoption of Alberti's Narcissus 102

The Unmasking of Egological Concepts of Intersubjectivity in Post-modernity 106

The Paranoiac Features of Post-modern Accounts of the Invisible 108

Certeau's Unfinished Attempt to Recover Cusa's Alternative Account 112

11 Cusa's Inversion of Modern Perspective 116

The Incompatibility of Cusa's Ontology with Idealist Accounts of the Invisible 117

The Ontological Difference between Temporal and Atemporal Modes of Being 121

The incompatibility of Cusa's Realism with Romantic Accounts of the Invisible 125

The Trinitarian and Christological Background of Cusa's Symbolic Realism 134

The Liturgical and Ecclesiological Orientation of Cusa's Symbolic Realism 139

12 Cusa's Holistic Alternative to the Analytic Rationality of Modernity 143

The Coincidence of Vision and Hearing as Key to Cusa's Common-Sense Realism 144

The Liturgical Crisis of the Late Middle Ages 147

The Phono- and Oculocentric Double Movement of the Emerging Age 149

Cusa's Late Attempt to Recover the Common-Sense Realism of the Middle Ages 152

13 Cusa's Holistic Alternative to Analytic Accounts of Individuality 153

The Modern Dichotomy between Atomization and Totalization 153

The Hierarchical Logic of Cusa's Participative Egalitarianism 155

The Doxological Sources of Cusa's Participative Pluralism 160

Cusa's Ultra-nominalist Rejection of Analytic Accounts of Individuality 163

Soteriological Implications of Cusa's Alternative to the Modern Dichotomy 165

14 Cusa's Apocalyptic Response to the Liturgical Crisis of His Age 168

The Impasse of Cusa's Anachronistic Vision of the Age to Come 168

Cusa's Deconstruction of Modal Ontologies of the Possible 174

The Displacement of the Body of Christ as Prototype of an Impossible Possibility 181

The Habit of metanoia as Key to Cusa's Account of the (Im-)Possible 185

15 Cusa's Ontology of Desire and the Body of Christ 190

The Irreducibility of Face-to-Face Encounters as an Ontological Problem 191

Cusa's Synthesis of the Medieval Concept of Love 194

The Sacramental and Ecclesial Context of Cusa's Ontology of Love 201

Trinitarian and Christological Implications of Cusa's Ontology of Love 207

Cusa's figura paradigmatica as skhema of His Inversion of Modern Perspective 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802868908

9780802868909

OCLC:

828892686

Publisher Number:

99956436459