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2024-11-07
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圖書標籤: 哲學 科學史 思想史 透視法 藝術理論 藝術史 科學思想史 建築理論
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評分哲學傢Harries寫過《建築的倫理功能》,此書是從Cusanus那令今人震驚的世界觀、上帝觀、多中心論講起,從of learned ignorance講到當時天主教教會的改革,然後進入到亞裏士多德的宇宙論,從而看到為何Cusanus描述的世界視角,既具有連續性,又具有革命性。。。。然後,纔是阿爾伯蒂、Ficino哥白尼。。。。。。不是建築史,也不是簡單的透視史,而是從透視開始的神學哲學史。
評分Harries argues that the overthrow of the limited and hierarchical medieval cosmos has its origin not in the new science of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, but in rather simple speculations on the nature of perspective.
評分Harries argues that the overthrow of the limited and hierarchical medieval cosmos has its origin not in the new science of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, but in rather simple speculations on the nature of perspective.
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