The Epochenschwelle of ‘analogia entis’: Blumenberg’s periodization-tool and a Scholastic doctrine on the verge of Modernity
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2023-02-20
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This thesis concerns the crucial Catholic doctrine of ‘analogia entis’, which has been levelled to the status of the central doctrine since the mid-20th century. More specifically, it deals with this doctrine by explicating it in terms of a broader debate about periodization: namely, the thought of Epochenschwelle as instigated by Hans Blumenberg. Rather than breaks between epochs, Blumenberg instead proposed his periodization-tool with the intention of situating the gradual transition in between historical actors or witnesses: in the case of the arrival of modernity, this amounted to locating Nicholas Cusanus on one end of the threshold (facing the Middle Ages), while on the other end stands Giordano Bruno (facing Modernity). The aim of this MA thesis is to “test” Blumenberg’s Epochenschwelle-thesis in terms of the ‘analogia entis’ or to see whether there can be said to be an epochal threshold in the history of the concept of analogy.
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