Some of the world's most eminent researchers on Bruno offer an exhaustive overview of the state-of-theart research on his work, discussing Bruno's methodological procedures, his epistemic and literary practices, his natural philosophy, or his role as theologian and metaphysic at the cutting-edge of their disciplines. Short texts by Bruno illustrate the reasoning of the contributions. The book also reflects aspects of Bruno's reception in the past and today, inside and outside academia.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART 1 Epistemic Practices of a Revolutionary:Bruno’s Methods and Thinking
- Giordano Bruno’s Changing of Default Positions
- The Measurement of the Immeasurable. Divine Mind and Mathematical Structures in Giordano Bruno’s De triplici minimo et mensura
- “…per speculum et in aenigmate…”
- Platonic Caverns and Epicurean Worlds
- PART 2 Experience and Vision of a New Cosmic Order: Giordano Bruno’s Natural Philosophy
- De immenso et innumerabilibus, I, 3 and the Concept of Planetary Systems in the Infinite Universe. A Commentary
- Atom, Matter, and Monade
- Giordano Bruno and the Relativity of Time
- Giordano Bruno and the New Order of Nature between Copernicus and Galilei
- PART 3 Forms of Non-Conformity: Bruno’s Works as Literary Texts
- The Comic and Philosophy: Plato’s Philebus and Bruno’s Candle-bearer
- The (In)discreet Presence of Machiavelli in Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio
- Bruno’s Cabala: Satire of Knowledge and the Uses of the Dialogue Form
- PART 4 Reflections of an Intellectual Burning: Bruno’s Reception and Literary Afterlife
- The Dialectic of the Absolute Beginning. On a Copper Engraving in Heinrich Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae
- A Catholic Reader of Giordano Bruno in Counter-Reformation Rome: Athanasius Kircher, SJ and Panspermia Rerum
- From Paris to Rome, Hamburg and London. Aspects of the Afterlife of Giordano Bruno in the Twentieth Century
- PART 5 Visibility of the Invisible: About the Sculpture Giordano Bruno by Alexander Polzin [2008]
- Flame and Wood. A Speech on the Occasion of the Unveiling of a Giordano Bruno Monument in Berlin / Color plates of the statue follow page 256
- List of Contributors
- Index Nominum
- Back cover
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