Elizabeth Brient
Biographic Data
| ID | 1673630 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Brient |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Brient |
| SIGNATURE | BRIENT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring the Cosmos: Unraveling Cusanus’ Metaphors
The works of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) distinguish themselves by an extensive range of metaphors spanning from things and circumstances of everyday life and aspects of the natural world to cosmological phenomena and more abstract geometrical and mathematical images. Many of these metaphors challenge the reader due to their often unusual and daring combination of elements, which appear to be semantically incongruous or remote from each other. I…
Exploding Metaphors: Reflections on the Methodology of Cusanus’ Divine Metaphorics
This paper will highlight Cusanus’ use of what Hans Blumenberg has termed “exploding metaphors” for God. I first will contrast explosive metaphors with standard analogical or mapping metaphors. Analogical, or mapping, metaphors aim to elucidate or situate something opaque, elusive or unfamiliar by referring it analogically to something already well known or familiar. Explosive metaphors do not aim to elucidate in this way. They do not aim to prod…
Prometheus gibt nicht auf: Antike Welt und modernes Leben in Hans Blumenbergs Philosophie
Die Literatur der griechisch-römischen Antike spielt in Hans Blumenbergs Werk eine tragende, aber ambivalente Rolle. Auch wo Blumenberg kritisch über die Erkenntnisse und Methoden der Vergangenheit urteilt, legt er das denkerische Potential der Texte frei: In phänomenologischer Hinsicht erscheint die Antike geradezu als das erste Gesicht der Neuzeit, die Neuzeit als Allegorie der Antike. Der Band erschließt erstmalig systematisch Blumenbergs Anti…
The Immanence of the Infinite: Hans Blumenberg and the Threshold to Modernity
Most scholars would agree that there is an epochal threshold between the world of the Middle Ages and the modern world. Agreement on the nature and dynamic structure of that threshold is harder to come by. Hans Blumenberg's original and compelling account of the transition from medieval to modern, given in his 1966 work The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, has received wide attention. Elizabeth Brient begins her own account of the transition with an…
Hans Blumenberg and Hannah Arendt on the "Unworldly Worldliness" of the Modern Age
In attempting to describe and respond to the dominant ethos of the modern age one is quickly confronted with a startling and seemingly intractable paradox: the age which has defined itself by the very intensity of its "this worldly" orientation is at the same time haunted by an ever growing sense of world loss, of the Unheimlichkeit of modern reality
Hans Blumenberg and Hannah Arendt on the "Unworldly Worldliness" of the Modern Age
In attempting to describe and respond to the dominant ethos of the modern age one is quickly confronted with a startling and seemingly intractable paradox: the age which has defined itself by the very intensity of its "this worldly" orientation is at the same time haunted by an ever growing sense of world loss, of the Unheimlichkeit of modern reality
Hans Blumenberg and Hannah Arendt on the "Unworldly Worldliness" of the Modern Age
In attempting to describe and respond to the dominant ethos of the modern age one is quickly confronted with a startling and seemingly intractable paradox: the age which has defined itself by the very intensity of its "this worldly" orientation is at the same time haunted by an ever growing sense of world loss, of the Unheimlichkeit of modern reality
The Immanence of the Infinite: Hans Blumenberg and the Threshold to Modernity
Most scholars would agree that there is an epochal threshold between the world of the Middle Ages and the modern world. Agreement on the nature and dynamic structure of that threshold is harder to come by. Hans Blumenberg's original and compelling account of the transition from medieval to modern, given in his 1966 work The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, has received wide attention. Elizabeth Brient begins her own account of the transition with an…
Prometheus gibt nicht auf: Antike Welt und modernes Leben in Hans Blumenbergs Philosophie
Die Literatur der griechisch-römischen Antike spielt in Hans Blumenbergs Werk eine tragende, aber ambivalente Rolle. Auch wo Blumenberg kritisch über die Erkenntnisse und Methoden der Vergangenheit urteilt, legt er das denkerische Potential der Texte frei: In phänomenologischer Hinsicht erscheint die Antike geradezu als das erste Gesicht der Neuzeit, die Neuzeit als Allegorie der Antike. Der Band erschließt erstmalig systematisch Blumenbergs Anti…
Exploring the Cosmos: Unraveling Cusanus’ Metaphors
The works of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) distinguish themselves by an extensive range of metaphors spanning from things and circumstances of everyday life and aspects of the natural world to cosmological phenomena and more abstract geometrical and mathematical images. Many of these metaphors challenge the reader due to their often unusual and daring combination of elements, which appear to be semantically incongruous or remote from each other. I…
Exploding Metaphors: Reflections on the Methodology of Cusanus’ Divine Metaphorics
This paper will highlight Cusanus’ use of what Hans Blumenberg has termed “exploding metaphors” for God. I first will contrast explosive metaphors with standard analogical or mapping metaphors. Analogical, or mapping, metaphors aim to elucidate or situate something opaque, elusive or unfamiliar by referring it analogically to something already well known or familiar. Explosive metaphors do not aim to elucidate in this way. They do not aim to prod…
Philosophy (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (2 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Humanities and Social Sciences (2 works) · Art history (1 works) · Astrobiology (1 works) · Astronomy (1 works) · Cosmos (plant) (1 works)