Nicholas of Cusa's ""on Learned Ignorance by Karsten Harries - 9780813238326

Nicholas of Cusa's \""on Learned IgnoranceA Commentary on \""De Docta Ignorantia\nAuthor(s): Karsten Harries\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The Catholic University of America Press, United States\nImprint: The Catholic University of America Press\nISBN-13: 9780813238326, 978-0813238326\nSynopsis\nThis is the first commentary to have been written on Nicholas of Cusa's most famous work, On Learned Ignorance. This fact testifies to the difficulty of what has long been recognized to be the most significant philosophical text produced by the Renaissance. While there are many passages in the work that can be cited in support of Cassirer's celebration of Cusanus as the first modern philosopher, that judgment is challenged by the way his work is rooted in a faith and a tradition likely to strike us as thoroughly medieval. This commentary shows how closely the two are linked. Despite the many ways in which what the cardinal has to say belongs to a past that the progress of reason would seem to h.