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008			200604s2013 nyu o 00 0 eng d
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035			_a(OCoLC)1164531056
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050	0	4	_aB765.N54
100	1		_aMoore, Michael Edward, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNicholas of Cusa and the Kairos of Modernity: Cassirer, Gadamer, Blumenberg _cMichael Edward Moore.
264		1	_bPunctum Books,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (1 online resource 97 pages.)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 83-97).
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aIn this far-reaching essay, historian Michael Edward Moore examines modernity as an historical epoch following the end of the medieval period -- and as a "messianic concept of time." In the early twentieth century, a debate over the meaning and origins of modernity unfolded among the philosophers Ernst Cassirer, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hans Blumenberg. These thinkers tried to resolve the puzzle of the fifteenth-century master Nicholas of Cusa. Was Cusanus the last great medieval thinker, his ideas a summa of medieval tradition? Or was he a mysterious epochal figure, seated at one end of the bridge leading to modern thought? Nicholas of Cusa lived during a time of historical and existential crisis, or kairos, when medieval governments and cherished sources of unity were shaken. Likewise, the debate over his significance took place during a later phase of crisis for Europe, in the decades before and after the Second World War, when the collapse of European civilization was witnessed. Moore argues that modernity, so intently examined as an historical and spiritual problem, has significance for our contemporary sense of crisis.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	1	_aBlumenberg, Hans.
600	1	1	_aGadamer, Hans-Georg, _d1900-2002.
600	1	1	_aCassirer, Ernst, _d1874-1945.
600	0	1	_aNicholas, _cof Cusa, Cardinal, _d1401-1464 _xInfluence.
650		0	_aPhilosophy, Modern _y20th century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76446/
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