Abstract
This article investigates the palimpsest reception of Pseudo-Dionysius (ca. 500) in the metaphysics of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464). The article covers Cusa’s political theory and metaphysics, which are intertwined. Reading Cusa against the backdrop of an analysis of Pseudo-Dionysius’ metaphysics in a preceding article, the author, in a synthetic conclusion, isolates seven Dionysic ‘trails’ (S1 to S7) in Cusa’s metaphysics: the interpretation of transcendence as bound to immanence; the affirmation of God’s transcendence in the world (or a metaphysics of ‘creation as teophany’); the radical transcendence and simultaneous radical immanence of God (that is, God as ‘Beingness’); fundamental restrictions of language and the analogical ‘Naming’ of God; creation as a system of dialectical symbols about God; the analogical participation of the subject in creation; and unification (reditus, the ‘flowing of things back to God’). The Dionysic trails in Cusa’s metaphysics are described as a noteworthy, if not important, palimpsest in the corpus of late Medieval philosophy and is indicative of what the author puts forward as ‘discursive memory’, which is presented as a modern-critical concept.
Highlights
Hierdie artikel, in opvolging van ’n voorafgaande ondersoek (Beukes 2018), verken ’n merkwaardige palimpses1 vanuit die eerste helfte van die vyftiende eeu, naamlik die nawerking van Pseudo-Dionisius as skugter informerend tot die metafisika van Nikolaus van Kusa (1401–1464)
Die palimpses wat vanuit hierdie twee artikels aangetoon word, word as merkwaardig getipeer, en vanuit ’n modern-kritiese gesigspunt ten opsigte van die herwinning of rehabilitering van dit wat vergete of verlore geraak het (Beukes 2005), as ’n belangrike voorbeeld of selfs geleier van ‘diskursiewe herinnering’ aangebied
Trouens meer as 9002 jaar die Middeleeuse weg af, verskyn talle metafisiese temas en konsepte wat latent na Dionisius terugkoppel, in die werk van Nikolaus van Kusa
Summary
Read online: Scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device to read online. Reading Cusa against the backdrop of an analysis of Pseudo-Dionysius’ metaphysics in a preceding article, the author, in a synthetic conclusion, isolates seven Dionysic ‘trails’ (S1 to S7) in Cusa’s metaphysics: the interpretation of transcendence as bound to immanence; the affirmation of God’s transcendence in the world (or a metaphysics of ‘creation as teophany’); the radical transcendence and simultaneous radical immanence of God (that is, God as ‘Beingness’); fundamental restrictions of language and the analogical ‘Naming’ of God; creation as a system of dialectical symbols about God; the analogical participation of the subject in creation; and unification (reditus, the ‘flowing of things back to God’). In opvolging van ’n voorafgaande ondersoek (Beukes 2018), verken ’n merkwaardige palimpses vanuit die eerste helfte van die vyftiende eeu, naamlik die nawerking van Pseudo-Dionisius Die palimpses wat vanuit hierdie twee artikels aangetoon word, word as merkwaardig getipeer, en vanuit ’n modern-kritiese gesigspunt ten opsigte van die herwinning of rehabilitering van dit wat vergete of verlore geraak het (Beukes 2005), as ’n belangrike voorbeeld of selfs geleier van ‘diskursiewe herinnering’ aangebied
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