Reading Cusanus
Subtitle: Metaphor and Dialectic in a Conjectural Universe (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy)
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780813210988
Subjects: Christian theology; Medieval & Scholastic philosophy; Philosophy; History Of Philosophy; of Cusa, Cardinal,; History & Surveys - Medieval; History & Surveys - General; Christian Theology - General; 1401-1464; Nicholas,
First sentence: As its title signals, Nicholas of Cusa's On Learned Ignorance is distinctive in taking as its theme "ignorance" or lack of knowledge of a certain sort.
Description: "This book presents careful readings of six of the most important theoretical works of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1463). Though Nicholas' writings have long been studied as either scholastic Aristotelian or proto-Kantian, Clyde Lee Miller locates Cusanus squarely in the Christian Neoplatonic tradition. He demonstrates how Nicholas worked out his own original synthesis of that tradition by fashioning a conjectural view of main categories of Christian thought: God, the universe, Jesus Christ, and human beings.

Each of the readings reveals how Nicholas' project of "learned ignorance" is played out in striking metaphors for God and the relation of God to creation."--BOOK JACKET.