Essays on Giordano Bruno / Hilary Gatti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gatti, Hilary.

Series:

University Center for Human Values

Standardized Title:

Essays. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600.

Bruno, Giordano.

Philosophy of nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were originally written in Italian and appear here in English for the first time. Bruno (1548-1600) is principally famous as a proponent of heliocentrism, the infinity of the universe, and the plurality of worlds. But his work spanned the sciences and humanities, sometimes touching the borders of the occult, and Hilary Gatti's essays richly reflect this diversity. The book is divided into sections that address three broad subjects: the relationship between Bruno and the new science, the history of his reception in English culture, and the principal characteristics of his natural philosophy. A final essay examines why this advocate of a "tranquil universal philosophy" ended up being burned at the stake as a heretic by the Roman Inquisition. While the essays take many different approaches, they are united by a number of assumptions: that, although well versed in magic, Bruno cannot be defined primarily as a Renaissance Magus; that his aim was to articulate a new philosophy of nature; and that his thought, while based on ancient and medieval sources, represented a radical rupture with the philosophical schools of the past, helping forge a path toward a new modernity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: Beginning as Negation in the Italian Dialogues of Giordano Bruno

PART 1. BRUNO AND THE NEW SCIENCE

1. Between Magic and Magnetism: Bruno's Cosmology at Oxford

2. Bruno's Copernican Diagrams

3. Bruno and the New Atomism

4. The Multiple Languages of the New Science

PART 2. BRUNO IN BRITAIN

5. Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno

6. The Sense of an Ending in Bruno's Heroici furori

7. Bruno and Shakespeare: Hamlet

8. Bruno's Candelaio and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist

9. Bruno and the Stuart Court Masques

10. Romanticism: Bruno and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

11. Bruno and the Victorians

PART 3. BRUNO'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

12. Bruno's Natural Philosophy

13. Bruno's Use of the Bible in His Italian Philosophical Dialogues

14. Science and Magic: The Resolution of Contraries

15. Bruno and Metaphor

EPILOGUE: Why Bruno's "A Tranquil Universal Philosophy" Finished in a Fire

Bibliography of Cited Works by and on Giordano Bruno

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612821127

9781400836932

140083693X

9781282821125

1282821121

OCLC:

677994864