The Analogical Turn: Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa (INTS)
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The Analogical Turn: Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa (INTS)  -     By: Johannes Hoff

The Analogical Turn: Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa (INTS)

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. / 2013 / Paperback

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* Nicholas of Cusa's appreciation of individuality, creativity, and scientific precision was rooted in 15th-century rationality. Yet his "modern" vision can provide insights into our postmodern life. Examining Cusa's thought, Hoff offers a fresh history of modernity, the related secularization narrative, a deconstruction of basic assumptions underlying postmodernism, and a liturgically grounded concept of commonsense realism. 240 pages, softcover from Eerdmans.

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Title: The Analogical Turn: Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa (INTS)
By: Johannes Hoff
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 2013
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN-13: 9780802868909
Stock No: WW028689

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Recovers a 15th-century thinker’s original insights for theology and philosophy today

Societies today, says Johannes Hoff, 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, his book 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 contrast to his mainstream contemporaries, Cusa’s appreciation of individuality, creativity, and scientific precision was deeply rooted in the analogical rationality of the Middle Ages. He revived and transformed the tradition of scientific realism in a manner that now, retrospectively, offers new insights into the “completely ordinary chaos” of postmodern everyday life.

Hoff’s original study offers a new vision of the history of modernity and the related secularization narrative, a deconstruction of the basic assumptions of postmodernism, and an unfolding of a liturgically grounded concept of common-sense realism.

Author Bio

Johannes Hoff is professor of systematic theology atHeythrop College in the University of London.

Editorial Reviews

John Milbank
-- University of Nottingham
"The Analogical Turn by Johannes Hoff for the first time locates Nicholas of Cusa without anachronism as a post-nominalist realist, who reworked the inherited analogical vision of Christian theology in a simultaneously late Gothic and Renaissance manner. As Hoff explains, this idiom offers us a new way forward today. . . . Much more than a monograph on a historical figure, this imaginatively crafted and extremely scholarly volume constitutes one of the most significant works of theology in the twenty-first century so far. I believe that it will exert a very considerable influence on future theoretical reflections both within theology and without."

Andrew Louth
-- Durham University
"In this fascinating book Johannes Hoff shows us how Nicholas of Cusa sought to express the insights of the classical and medieval worldview in the conceptuality of the modern. With enormous learning and great insight, Hoff's Analogical Turn illuminates some of the urgent problems of philosophy and theology today."

Karsten Harries
-- Yale University
"With The Analogical Turn: Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa Johannes Hoff has given us the most challenging and most readable book on the fifteenth-century cardinal to have appeared in English. But, as the title suggests, at issue is much more -- the shape and fate of our modern world. Recently there has been much talk about this being a postmodern, postsecular age. Hoff's book should make such talk more thoughtful."

Simon Oliver
-- University of Nottingham
"This work by Johannes Hoff crucially enhances our understanding of the origins of modernity in the late Middle Ages. . . . He shows how the fragmented and illusory modern world in which we live was not an inevitable outcome of the cultural and intellectual upheavals of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There is an alternative modernity, centered on a theological symbolic reality, which can be derived chiefly from the work of fifteenth-century theologian, philosopher, and mathematician Nicholas of Cusa. There is a way of radically rethinking our modern cultural and intellectual malaise. This is scholarship of the very highest caliber. Hoff's book will establish itself as one of the most significant works of Christian theology and philosophy in recent years."

Times Literary Supplement 
"Offers delight after delight. . . . Hoff wishes to open the reader’s eye to something extraordinary."
 

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