The Analogical Turn: Rethinking Modernity With Nicholas Of Cusa (interventions)
by Johannes Hoff /
2013 / English / EPUB
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Recovers a 15th-century thinker’s original insights for
theology and philosophy today
Recovers a 15th-century thinker’s original insights for
theology and philosophy today
Societies today, says Johannes Hoff, are characterized by their
inability to reconcile seemingly black-and-white scientific
rationality with the ambiguity of postmodern pop culture. In the
face of this crisis, his book
Societies today, says Johannes Hoff, are characterized by their
inability to reconcile seemingly black-and-white scientific
rationality with the ambiguity of postmodern pop culture. In the
face of this crisis, his bookThe Analogical Turn
The Analogical Turn recovers
the fifteenth-century thinker Nicholas of Cusa’s alternative
vision of modernity to develop a fresh perspective on the
challenges of our time.
recovers
the fifteenth-century thinker Nicholas of Cusa’s alternative
vision of modernity to develop a fresh perspective on the
challenges of our time.
In contrast to his mainstream contemporaries, Cusa’s appreciation
of individuality, creativity, and scientific precision was deeply
rooted in the analogical rationality of the Middle Ages. He
revived and transformed the tradition of scientific realism in a
manner that now, retrospectively, offers new insights into the
“completely ordinary chaos” of postmodern everyday life.
In contrast to his mainstream contemporaries, Cusa’s appreciation
of individuality, creativity, and scientific precision was deeply
rooted in the analogical rationality of the Middle Ages. He
revived and transformed the tradition of scientific realism in a
manner that now, retrospectively, offers new insights into the
“completely ordinary chaos” of postmodern everyday life.
Hoff’s original study offers a new vision of the history of
modernity and the related secularization narrative, a
deconstruction of the basic assumptions of postmodernism, and an
unfolding of a liturgically grounded concept of common-sense
realism.
Hoff’s original study offers a new vision of the history of
modernity and the related secularization narrative, a
deconstruction of the basic assumptions of postmodernism, and an
unfolding of a liturgically grounded concept of common-sense
realism.