Fra ritorno all'Antico e innovazione. Cusano al crocevia del suo tempo (original) (raw)
2022, Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee
The aim of this paper is to reflect on the reconstruction of Cusanus' thought given by Enrico Peroli in his recent monograph on the cardinal - which takes into account all Cusanus' theoretical texts, also contextualizing his thought in the historical context of the 15th century. The analysis of Peroli's contribution will, first of all, be an opportunity to reflect on the process through which Cusanus performs a revival of Neoplatonism and its late antique sources. At the same time, in addition to the relationship with the past, it will also be possible to reflect on Cusanus' relationship with Modernity-on which Peroli himself insists in several points of his work, according to a perspective widely shared among scholars and paradigmatically expounded by Ernst Cassirer, but in which Peroli inscribes himself in a peculiar way. We will thus have the opportunity to compare this hermeneutic paradigm with some recent perspectives that have emerged in the reading of Renaissance-humanistic thought as a whole. The analysis of Peroli's work thus will become an ideal opportunity to reflect on possible future developments of our understanding of Cusanus' philosophy, considered as a peculiar expression of the broader framework of the rebirth of Platonism in the Renaissance.
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