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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. (x), 248pp. Ex-library. No dust-jacket. A nice, clean, sound copy with no writing to text. Seller Inventory # 037049
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth hardcover, x + 248 pages, bibliography, index of names & subjects. Weight: 0.58kg / 1.28lb. Ex-university library, marked "withdrawn from collection", with corresponding library markings: an external stamp on upper and lower page edges and a label on lower spine, internal stamps and numbers, and a pocket inside the front board. Pages are mostly clean (a couple of small grubby marks here and there), bright, untanned, with firm binding. Pencil annotations in margins of pages 172-175. Traces of erased pencil on a few pages. Pink offset marks on side outer page edges. Boards with a scuffed tip of the lower corner of the front panel, faint dusty handling marks. No dust jacket. -- Contents: List of Illustrations; Preface; I. Cusanus' Vision of Man: Historical and Historiographical Backgrounds; II. Ut nocticoraci solem videre attemptanti: The Metaphysical Foundations of Cusasnus' Visions of Man (-- God, -- The Universe, -- The Incarnation); III. Mens imago Dei: The Conjectural Art and the Dignity of Man (-- The Conjectural Art, -- The Dignity of Man); IV. Sapientia clamat in plateis: Lay Wisdom and Artisan Creativity (-- The Wisdom of the Street, -- Homo Faber); V. Visio Dei, oculus mentis: Will, Intellect, and the Search for God (-- The De visione Dei, -- The De beryllo); VI. Homo ludens: Metaphors of Culture in the Late Works (-- The De ludo globi, -- Other Late Works); VII. Cusanus' Vision of Man: A Renaissance Synthesis. Seller Inventory # 006921