Works

47 hrs. 34 min.

Language Russian

Author Nicholas of Cusa

Narrator BIGBAG

Description

Volume One includes all the main works of the greatest philosopher of the early Renaissance, Nicholas of Cusa, written between 1440 and 1450. In them, Nicholas’s teaching unfolds about the coincidence of opposites in the primal unity, about the creative role of man in the universe, and a new, pre-Copernican cosmology is outlined. The bulk of the works is published in Russian for the first time. The remaining ones are provided in a new translation or newly checked against the original.

Volume Two of the Collected Works of Nicholas of Cusa, the early Renaissance thinker, includes his main works from 1449–1464: “The Apology of Learned Ignorance,” “On the Vision of God,” “On the Beryl,” “On the Not Other,” “The Play of the Ball,” “The Hunt for Wisdom,” and others. On the basis of ancient and medieval tradition, dialectics of ascent toward the primal source develops here, along with the doctrine of the unity of the world, of man as a microcosm, and of the purpose of life. Most of the works are published in Russian for the first time; the rest have been newly edited and re-checked against the original.