Turning traditions upside down : rethinking Giordano Bruno's enlightenment / edited by Henning Hufnagel and Anne Eusterschulte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hufnagel, Henning S.

Eusterschulte, Anne

Project Muse.

Series:

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Project MUSE.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600.

Bruno, Giordano.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Giordano Bruno: A non-conformist at the dawn of an epoch, a martyr of modernity, or just a polemic controvert? Descriptions of this kind fall short of grasping the multifold character of "the Nolan." Deconstructing the relationship between God and the outside world gave distinction to his life-and his refusal to recant when facing the stake somehow set him apart from the world. Since then, the debate about the Nolan has been dominated by the interest in the comprehensive oeuvre of the philosopher, and by attempts to make him a protagonist of the freedom of thought. This volume brings together some of the most eminent researchers to have worked on Giordano Bruno and his epoch. In order to bring into focus the horizon and the dimensions of his transformation of traditions, to demonstrate how he turned contemporary thinking upside down, and to delineate his persuasive strategies, as well as the theoretical consequences of his thought, the contributions all start from an exemplary passage drawn from Bruno's great range of work or from texts close to his person and oeuvre. Presenting and elucidating pivotal points of the philosophia nolana, the essays both invite readers to become acquainted with Bruno's philosophy and provide them with innovative dissections, interpretations and conceptual reflections that will prepare the way for a revised reading of Bruno's works. They reconstruct his deconstruction and rearrangement of philosophical systems, his understanding of nature and the cosmos, his methods of thinking and writing, his aesthetic and literary categories. They explore the topics and modi operandi of the great Renaissance thinker and point out the variance of his reception up to the present, both inside and outside academia, exhibiting the ever-changing relevance and continuing fascination of Bruno's work. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Henning Hufnagel Hufnagel, Henning, Anne Eusterschulte Eusterschulte, Anne 1

Part 1 Epistemic Practices of a Revolutionary: Bruno's Methods and Thinking

Giordano Bruno's Changing of Default Positions / Paul Richard Blum Blum, Paul Richard 13

The Measurement of the Immeasurable. Divine Mind and Mathematical Structures in Giordano Bruno's De triplici minima et mensura / Angelika Bönker-Vallon Bönker-Vallon, Angelika 19

"...per speculum et in aenigmate..." / Michele Ciliberto Ciliberto, Michele 35

Platonic Caverns and Epicurean Worlds / Anne Eusterschulte Eusterschulte, Anne 63

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 / Miguel Ángel Granada Granada, Miguel Ángel 91

Atom, Matter, and Monade / Wolfgang Neuser Neuser, Wolfgang 107

Giordano Bruno and the Relativity of Time / Enrico Renato Antonio Giannetto Giannetto, Enrico Renato Antonio 121

Giordano Bruno and the New Order of Nature between Copernicus and Galilei / Arcangelo Rossi Rossi, Arcangelo 131

Part 3 Forms of Non-Conformity: Bruno's Works as Literary Texts

The Comic and Philosophy: Plato's Philebus and Bruno's Candle-bearer / Nuccio Ordine Ordine, Nuccio 151

The (In)discreet Presence of Machiavelli in Giordano Bruno's Candelaio / Sergius Kodera Kodera, Sergius 159

Bruno's Cabala: Satire of Knowledge and the Uses of the Dialogue Form / Henning Hufnagel Hufnagel, Henning 199

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 / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm 199

A Catholic Reader of Giordano Bruno in Counter-Reformation Rome: Athanasius Kircher, SJ and Panspermia Rerum / Ingrid Rowland Rowland, Ingrid 221

From Paris to Rome, Hamburg and London. Aspects of the Afterlife of Giordano Bruno in the Twentieth Century / François Quiviger Quiviger, François 237

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 Giordano Bruno Monument in Berlin Color plates of the statue follow page 256 / Durs Grünbein Grünbein, Durs 251

Color plates of the statue 256.

Notes:

Proceedings of a colloquium held in 2008 at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786155053634

6155053634

OCLC:

761843239