Infinity and Perspective
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: April 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780262082921
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Modernism; Postmodernism; Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600; General; History & Surveys - Modern; History & Surveys - Modern - Renaissance Era; History / General; Renaissance Philosophy; Philosophy; 1401-1464; History; Infinite; Nicholas,; Perspective (Philosophy); of Cusa, Cardinal,
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.