Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Jan Miernowski -- Remerciements / Jan Miernowski -- Introduction / Theologies Negatives -- Chapter Premier Penser la Dissimilarite / Denys L'Areopagite -- Chapter II Vaincre la Dissimilarite par L'Analogie / Thomas D'Aquin -- Chapter III Vaincre la Dissimilarite par L'Amour / Marsile Ficin -- Chapter IV Conjecturer Dans L'Infini / Nicolas de Cues -- Chapter V «Nihil Nihil Est», le Neant dit L'Etre / Charles de Bovelles -- Chapter VI Dieu Plutot «Omninommable» L'Hermetisme / Jan Miernowski -- Chapter VII Dieu Dans le Langage, Hermeneutique et Metaphore la Cabale Chretienne / Jan Miernowski -- Epilogue «Tresaults Sacrements» et «Motz de Gueule» / Jan Miernowski -- Bibliographie / Jan Miernowski -- Index Nominum / Jan Miernowski -- Index Rerum / Jan Miernowski -- Studies in the History of Christian Thought / Jan Miernowski.

Le Dieu Néant. Théologies Négatives à l'Aube des Temps Modernes is a study of the diverse intellectual possibilities presented to Medieval and Renaissance intellectuals by the negative theology of pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. It deals specifically with the ontological, epistemological and semiotic aspects of interpretations of Dionysian philosophy developed by such thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, Ficino, Cusanus and Bovelles. It also attempts to differentiate between the negative theology specific to Dionysius, and those elements of negative thinking peculiar to Hermetism and the Christian Cabala. This analysis of negative theology sheds new light on the differences between major intellectual currents of European philosophy (scholasticism, Italian Neoplatonism, German and French mysticism, occultism), while introducing useful distinctions into the history of the Dionysian tradition itself.

French.

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