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.
这本书里的思想非常复杂,没办法理出线性的逻辑关系,书中谈到的各种思想源流呈网状联系,看完书之后,摘抄出来划线的段落集中起来看,仍然是一脸懵逼。。。读了几十年书了也算是头一次遇到这样的情况,各章之间,前后章节都有联系,随随便便就能理出一些逻辑线索。 作者的厉...
评分序 2018圣诞节当天,上完了这学期科学思想史名著精读的最后一堂课,《无限与视角》的阅读也再次告一段落。在待了十几年的老地方,节日自然是没什么好过的,或许不如写书评,但想想圣诞夜仍在图书馆码字,多少又有点悲催。 未来几年,这恐怕都是与知识为伴的宿命。 《无限与视角...
评分8 下半部分首先出现的,是一位返场选手——库萨的尼古拉。 前面说过,透视法显示人经由反思的“去中心”如何与“回到中心”相联系,思考上帝无限性所导致的“去中心”会引出人文主义的“回到中心”。而关键是,新得到的中心不再能自称为一个“绝对的中心”。这时候,中世纪人想...
评分这本书里的思想非常复杂,没办法理出线性的逻辑关系,书中谈到的各种思想源流呈网状联系,看完书之后,摘抄出来划线的段落集中起来看,仍然是一脸懵逼。。。读了几十年书了也算是头一次遇到这样的情况,各章之间,前后章节都有联系,随随便便就能理出一些逻辑线索。 作者的厉...
评分8 下半部分首先出现的,是一位返场选手——库萨的尼古拉。 前面说过,透视法显示人经由反思的“去中心”如何与“回到中心”相联系,思考上帝无限性所导致的“去中心”会引出人文主义的“回到中心”。而关键是,新得到的中心不再能自称为一个“绝对的中心”。这时候,中世纪人想...
晚期海德格尔~作者已退休。耶鲁哲学系网站上有他的讲课稿,赶紧去下载
评分难。。。
评分究竟是不是希腊的科学
评分哲学家Harries写过《建筑的伦理功能》,此书是从Cusanus那令今人震惊的世界观、上帝观、多中心论讲起,从of learned ignorance讲到当时天主教教会的改革,然后进入到亚里士多德的宇宙论,从而看到为何Cusanus描述的世界视角,既具有连续性,又具有革命性。。。。然后,才是阿尔伯蒂、Ficino哥白尼。。。。。。不是建筑史,也不是简单的透视史,而是从透视开始的神学哲学史。
评分可能是因为这仅仅是我第二次接触科学史的主题,震动还挺大的。condemnation 1277 那段讨论有些醍醐灌顶的感觉。最后尾声那里写得真动人呀。
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