The Analogical Turn: Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa (Biblia.com)

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According to Johannes Hoff, societies today are characterized by their inability to reconcile seemingly black-and-white scientific rationality with the ambiguity of postmodern pop culture. In the face of this crisis, The Analogical Turn recovers the fifteenth-century thinker Nicholas of Cusa’s alternative vision of modernity to develop a fresh perspective on the challenges of our time. In...

but effectively dissociated representationalist forces. The emerging oculocentric tradition focused exclusively on my narcissistic ability to see myself seeing at the cost of my ability to respond to my audible environment through the mystagogical modes of vision and contemplation that it affords, while the emerging phonocentric tradition focused exclusively on my ability to hear myself speaking at the cost of my ability to respond to my visible environment through the doxological and apostrophic

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