Category: Philosophy
Format: Essay/Paperback
Dimension: 15 cms x 23 cms
Pages: 184
Price: 20 €
Year: 2021

Review

Written by jacabook

It is perhaps no coincidence that in troubled times like these one can find comfort in picking up the pages of Nicola Cusano, a thinker of "transition" between the Middle Ages and Modernity. For Cusano, if the truth does not belong to us, we certainly belong to it. Not even those who deny it can escape this belonging; not even those who affirm it can exceed it and make it their own. Between these two excesses lie the task, the destiny and the future of philosophy. The enigma of Cusano's thought seems to challenge the centuries, interpretations and ideologies: he was read as a forerunner of modern and subjectivistic thought, but also as a cardinal firmly rooted in the pre-modern theological atmosphere. He was an energetic man of action, a reformer, a critic of the relaxed customs of the Church of the time, a thinker of universal peace. He traced the ways of a modern and unscrupulous mystical vision but he admired the efforts with which the mind tried to give scientific and mathematical form to the world. From the comparison with Hegel to that with the recent "speculative" and "realist" turn of contemporary philosophy, the chapters of this book try to show Cusano's thought at work, letting his ability to constantly surprise the reader but also to value its very unique perspective, in the search for meaning that involves us all.

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