| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Interventions |
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Interventions
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| Contents |
Part I. Nicholas of Cusa : pioneer of a forgotten path into the modern age. Cusa's path to the "wisdom of unknowing" -- The legacy of Dionysius the Areopagite -- Wisdom shouts outside in the alleys and squares -- 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 automony. Prologue: the liturgical staging of modern perspective in De visione Dei -- The prehistory of the modern concepts of perspective and space -- The formation of the modern "world picture" in Renaissance Italy -- Cusa's response to the emergence of the modern concept of space -- Cusa's repsonse to the emergence of the modern concept of autonomy -- Part III. Cusa's alternative vision of the age to come. Cusa's resistance to the hyper-reflexivity of the narcissistic age -- Cusa's inversion of modern perspective -- Cusa's holistic alternative to the analytic rationality of modernity -- Cusa's holistic alternative to analytic accounts of individuality -- Cusa's apocalyptic response to the liturgical crisis of his age -- Cusa's ontology of desire and the body of Christ |
| Notes |
The Liturgical and Ecclesiological Orientation of Cusa's Symbolic Realism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.
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| SUBJECT |
Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464 fast |
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Civilization, Modern.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Civilization, Modern
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013021704 |
| ISBN |
9781467439022 |
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1467439029 |
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