Infinity and Perspective

Karsten Harries is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.

出版者:The MIT Press

作者:Karsten Harries

页数:392

出版时间:2001-4-16

价格:USD 62.50

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780262082921

图书标签:哲学科学史思想史透视法艺术理论艺术史科学思想史建筑理论

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. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future. Such conviction has frequently led to a critique of modernity's founding heroes. Challenging that critique, Harries insists that modernity is supported by nothing other than human freedom.

But more important to Harries is to show how modernist self-assertion is shadowed by nihilism and what it might mean to step out of that shadow. Looking at a small number of medieval and Renaissance texts, as well as some paintings, he uncovers the threshold that separates the modern from the premodern world. At the same time, he illuminates that other, more questionable threshold, between the modern and the postmodern.

Two spirits preside over the book: Alberti, the Renaissance author on art and architecture, whose passionate interest in perspective and point of view offers a key to modernity; and Nicolaus Cusanus, the fifteenth-century cardinal, whose work shows that such interest cannot be divorced from speculations on the infinity of God. The title Infinity and Perspective connects the two to each other and to the shape of modernity.

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昨天刚刚跟一个朋友聊到上帝与科学的关系，便看到了这本书，直观扼要，而且剥去了专业范畴的概念，使用了普遍性的词语，我们每一个人都可能读明白，或者至少有些收获。 西方科技发展的进程一直伴随着宗教的演变，它们有相同的老祖宗，或者说宗教是科学发源的前提。正是基督对人...  

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