Exploring the Cosmos: Unraveling Cusanus’ Metaphors
CERES Palais, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
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.
In the workshop, we want to take up this challenge and further explore both the scope and the particularities of Nicholas’ figurative language. In this attempt, the presented case studies will also serve as test cases to investigate conceptual issues of metaphor analysis, such as the relations of source and target domains and the mapping process.
On the CRC 1475 and Subproject C03 Knut Martin Stünkel
10.30 – 11.30
Cusanus’ Scientific Observations of the Physical World: The Most Direct Metaphorical Approach toward the Divine Il Kim
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.00
Problems of the Infinite Line of Nicholas of Cusa David C. Albertson
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch Break
14.30 – 15.30
“All likenesses must shatter”: Exploding Metaphors, Exploding Texts in Nicholas of Cusa Elizabeth Brient
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.00
Presentation of the INF Project and the Thesaurus of Religious Metaphors Frederik Elwert
17.00 – 17.30
On the Journal “Metaphor Papers” Julia Heinig
18.30
Dinner
Friday, 16. June
10.00 – 11.00
Wege wagen mit Cusanus: Alchemistische Metaphorik des lateinischen Mittelalters in Rezepten, Dialogen und Predigten des deutschen Denkers des 15. Jhs. Witalij Morosow
11.00 – 11.20
Coffee Break
11.20 – 12.15
Mill, Miller, and Grinding as Theological Comparisons and Metaphors in Cusanus' Sermones Viki Ranff
12.15 – 13.00
Metaphors of Metabolisms in Cusanus' Sermons Phoenix Savapakarn
