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