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9780700716715

Nicholas of Cusa: A Medieval Thinker for the Modern Age

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    9780700716715

  • ISBN10:

    0700716718

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-12-21
  • Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

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This collection of essays in English, German and French marks the sixth centenary of the birth of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64), one of the most important thinkers of 15th Century Europe.

Table of Contents

Preface viii
List of Contributors
x
Abbreviations xii
Welcome Message: `Una religio in rituum varietate' 1(4)
Chumaru Koyama
PART I TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN CUSANUS' THOUGHT
Große und Grenzen der menschlichen Vernunft (intellectus) nach Cusanus
5(30)
Klaus Kremer
The Changing Face of Posse: Another Look at Nicolaus Cusanus' De apice theoriae (1464)
35(12)
H. Lawrence Bond
Concord and Discord: Nicholas of Cusa as a legal and political thinker
47(13)
Morimichi Watanabe
Friede und Schopfungskraft: Cusanus, Montaigne und die Philosophie der Renaissance
60(17)
Inigo Bocken
Cusanus' Epistemology in Idiota de mente
77(8)
Naoko Sato
Innovation in mathematics and proclusean tradition in Cusanus' thought
85(4)
Jean-Marie Nicolle
Quelques reflexions sur la logique de la coincidentia oppositorum
89(8)
Hisako Nagakura
Nicolaus Cusanus und der Einfluss der Schule von Chartres
97(9)
Keiko Takashima
Mathematiques et alterite dans l'œuvre de Nicolas de Cues
106(6)
Jocelyne Sfez
Nikolaus von Kues: Vom Studenten zum Kardinal - Lebensweg und Lebenswelt eines spatmittelalterlichen Intellektuellen
112(13)
Manfred Groten
Kardinal Nikolaus von Kues und die Reichs-Wahlstadt Frankfurt am Main: Die Pfarreiteilung und Judendiskriminierung auf seiner deutschen Legationsreise
125(9)
Kinnichi Ogura
Nicolaus Cusanus und das Kloster Tegernsee
134(11)
Rudolf Endres
St. Benedict and Nicholas of Cusa
145(8)
Yoshiaki Yauchi
PART II CUSANUS AND RELIGION
Gewohnheit ist kein Attribut Gottes: Die Intention des Religionsdialoges bei Abaelard, Lull und Cusanus
153(14)
Walter Andreas Euler
Vom Wesen des Panentheismus in Ost und West: Ein Vergleich De docta ignorantia von Cusanus und der Erkenntnis des Kegon-Sutras im Mahayana-Buddhismus
167(7)
Akira Kawanami
Cusanus, die Afrikanische Kultur und Tradition: Das Sehen Gottes als Ausgangspunkt
174(11)
Clement N. Obielu
PART III CONTEMPORARY MEANING OF CUSANUS' THOUGHT
L'actualite de la pensee de Nicolas de Cues: La docte ignorance et sa signification hermeneutique, ethique et esthetique
185(16)
Joao Maria Andre
Die Naturanschauung bei Nicolaus Cusanus und Paracelsus
201(5)
Masako Odagawa
Cusanus, Concord and Conflict
206(14)
Gerald Christianson
Negation und Schau in der Gotteserkenntnis
220(21)
Klaus Riesenhuber
Cusanus and Social Philosophy
241(8)
Takashi Sakamoto
Cusanus and Multiculturalism
249(8)
Morimichi Kato
`Non aliud' als `Spiritus spirans' - im Zusammenhang mit dem orientalischen Denken
257(7)
Yasukuni Matsuyama
Das Problem der Unendlichkeit bei Nicolaus Cusanus
264(7)
Tan Sonoda
Elliptisches Denken bei Nikolaus von Kues -- den Anderen als Gefahrten suchend
271(7)
Kazuhiko Yamaki
Subject Index 278(3)
Index of Names 281(4)
Index of Places 285(2)
Index of Cusanus' Cited Works 287

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