Infinity, Faith, and Time: Christian Humanism and Renaissance LiteratureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 26 de nov. 1997 - 216 pàgines In Part 1 Hill examines the effect of the idea of spatial infinity on seventeenth-century literature, arguing that the metaphysical cosmology of Nicholas of Cusa provided Renaissance writers, such as Pascal, Traherne, and Milton, with a way to construe the vastness of space as the symbol of human spiritual potential. Focusing on time in Part 2, Hill reveals that, faced with the inexorability of time, Christian humanists turned to St Augustine to develop a philosophy that interpreted temporal passage as the necessary condition of experience without making it the essence or ultimate measure of human purpose. Hill's analysis centres on Shakespeare, whose experiments with the shapes of time comprise a gallery of heuristic time-centred fictions that attempt to explain the consequences of human existence in time. Infinity, Faith, and Time reveals that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period during which individuals were able, with more success than in later times, to make room for new ideas without rejecting old beliefs. |
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... Cosmos 13 3 Nicholas of Cusa and the New Astronomy 17 4 Rational Spirituality and Empirical Rationalism 28 5 Chorismos and Methexis : Pascal , Traherne , Milton 40 PART TWO TIME 6 Chronos and Kairos 69 7 Inner Time : Augustine and ...
... Cosmos 13 3 Nicholas of Cusa and the New Astronomy 17 4 Rational Spirituality and Empirical Rationalism 28 5 Chorismos and Methexis : Pascal , Traherne , Milton 40 PART TWO TIME 6 Chronos and Kairos 69 7 Inner Time : Augustine and ...
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... cosmos . The subject of part 2 is Time . As much as the discovery of the vastness of interstellar space , the Renaissance discovery of time ( facilitated by the invention of sophisticated , accurate , and readily available timepieces ) ...
... cosmos . The subject of part 2 is Time . As much as the discovery of the vastness of interstellar space , the Renaissance discovery of time ( facilitated by the invention of sophisticated , accurate , and readily available timepieces ) ...
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TIME | 67 |
Notes Toward a Protestant Poetic | 137 |
Translations from Pascals Pensées | 154 |
Notes | 157 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 195 |
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