Infinity and Perspective

Name: Infinity and Perspective
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ISBN: 9780262582186

ISBN-10: 026258218X

ISBN-13: 9780262582186

Edition: 2002

Authors: Karsten Harries

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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…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



Introduction: The Problem of the Modern



Power and Poverty of Perspective



Perspective and the Infinity of the Universe



Learned Ignorance



Alberti and Perspective Construction



Curious Perspectives



The Thread of Ariadne



Infinity and Truth



Truth as the Property of God



The Infinity of Space and the Infinity of Man



The Infinity of Man and the Infinity of God



Homo Faber: The Rediscovery of Protagoras



The Dignity of Man



The Loss of the Earth



Copernican Anthropocentrism



The Crime of Bruno



Insight and Blindness of Galileo



The Reef of the Infinite



Copernican Revolutions



Epilogue: Astronautics and Astronoetics


Notes


Index