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Infinity and perspective /

A philosophical exploration of the origin and limits of the modern world. Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harries, Karsten
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Power and poverty of perspective
  • Perspective and the infinity of the universe
  • Learned ignorance
  • Alberti and perspective construction
  • Curious perspectives
  • The thread of Ariadne
  • pt. 2. Infinity and truth
  • Truth as the property of God
  • The infinity of space and the infinity of man
  • The infinity of man and the infinity of God
  • Homo Faber: the rediscovery of Protagoras
  • The dignity of man
  • pt. 3. The loss of the Earth
  • Copernican anthropocentrism
  • The crime of Bruno
  • Insight and blindness of Galileo
  • The reef of infinite
  • Copernican revolutions
  • Epilogue: astronautics and astronoetics.