Nicholas of Cusa and the kairos of modernity : Cassirer, Gadamer, Blumenberg /
In 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 philo...
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600 | 1 | 0 | |a Cassirer, Ernst, |d 1874-1945. |
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600 | 1 | 1 | |a Gadamer, Hans-Georg, |d 1900-2002. |
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