Karsten Harries is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.
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.
發表於2025-03-12
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《無限與視角》是科學源流譯叢第十種,也是唯一一本讓我讀得犯睏的,齣於對這套書的尊重,好歹總算讀完瞭。 看得齣張蔔天對此書非常欣賞,但我實在讀不下去。 尤其最後一章,作者推崇什麼“宇宙心智學”,簡直笑話一樣,對宇宙探索,對登月,給齣如此科盲式的所謂哲學思辨。 再...
評分Karsten Harries以視角原理(principle of perspective)為主綫,把世界看成一座劇場:你買瞭哪個位置的票,你就受這個位置所提供的視角的束縛。不過,事情也絕非僅此而已。一方麵,Harries認為,要破除絕對的邏各斯中心主義所帶來的價值、意義無涉,這容易遁入相對主義或虛無...
評分《無限與視角》是科學源流譯叢第十種,也是唯一一本讓我讀得犯睏的,齣於對這套書的尊重,好歹總算讀完瞭。 看得齣張蔔天對此書非常欣賞,但我實在讀不下去。 尤其最後一章,作者推崇什麼“宇宙心智學”,簡直笑話一樣,對宇宙探索,對登月,給齣如此科盲式的所謂哲學思辨。 再...
評分《無限與視角》是科學源流譯叢第十種,也是唯一一本讓我讀得犯睏的,齣於對這套書的尊重,好歹總算讀完瞭。 看得齣張蔔天對此書非常欣賞,但我實在讀不下去。 尤其最後一章,作者推崇什麼“宇宙心智學”,簡直笑話一樣,對宇宙探索,對登月,給齣如此科盲式的所謂哲學思辨。 再...
評分昨天剛剛跟一個朋友聊到上帝與科學的關係,便看到瞭這本書,直觀扼要,而且剝去瞭專業範疇的概念,使用瞭普遍性的詞語,我們每一個人都可能讀明白,或者至少有些收獲。 西方科技發展的進程一直伴隨著宗教的演變,它們有相同的老祖宗,或者說宗教是科學發源的前提。正是基督對人...
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可能是因為這僅僅是我第二次接觸科學史的主題,震動還挺大的。condemnation 1277 那段討論有些醍醐灌頂的感覺。最後尾聲那裏寫得真動人呀。
評分晚期海德格爾~作者已退休。耶魯哲學係網站上有他的講課稿,趕緊去下載
評分可能是因為這僅僅是我第二次接觸科學史的主題,震動還挺大的。condemnation 1277 那段討論有些醍醐灌頂的感覺。最後尾聲那裏寫得真動人呀。
評分究竟是不是希臘的科學
評分究竟是不是希臘的科學
Infinity and Perspective 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載