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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harries, Karsten
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Nicholas, > of Cusa, Cardinal, > 1401-1464.
Alberti, Leon Battista, > 1404-1472.
Nikolaus > von Kues.
Alberti, Leon Battista.
Perspective (Philosophy) > History.
Infinite > History.
Perspective (Philosophie) > Histoire.
Infini > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
Infinite.
Perspective (Philosophy)
Philosophie
Kunst
Oneindigheid.
Moderniteit.
Perspectief.
Waarheid.
Wereldbeeld.
Perspektive.
HUMANITIES/History
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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