Essays on Giordano Bruno (eBook)

Hilary Gatti (Autor)

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2010
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3693-2 (ISBN)

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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 "e;tranquil universal philosophy"e; 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.

Autor

Hilary Gatti taught for many years at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. Her books include Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science and The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge: Giordano Bruno in England. She is also the editor of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 17 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Allegory • ALL THINGS • Analogy • Aristotle • art of memory • Astronomy • Atomism • Ben Jonson • Bernardino Telesio • Bible • BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA • Biography • Cambridge University Press • Charles Darwin • circumference • Concept • Consciousness • Copernican heliocentrism • Cosmological Argument • Criticism • Democritus • Dualism • Epicureanism • epicurus • Eugenio Garin • Explanation • Firmament • First principle • Form of life (philosophy) • Frances Yates • Francis Bacon (artist) • Galileo Galilei • Geometry • Giordano Bruno • Good and evil • heliocentrism • Hermes Trismegistus • Hermetica • Hermeticism • hypothesis • idealism • Illustration • Inquiry • Joachim of Fiore • John Florio • John Tyndall • Kabbalah • Lecture • Lucretius • Marsilio Ficino • Materialism • Mathematics • Metaphor • Natural Philosophy • Nature • Neoplatonism • Nicholas of Cusa • Non-Euclidean geometry • Occult • Ontology • Oxford University Press • Pantheism • Parmenides • petrarch • Petrarchan Sonnet • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • Plotinus • Poetry • Positivism • Princeton University Press • Principle • Protestantism • Publication • Pythagoreanism • Quantity • Ramon Llull • Reality • reason • rhetoric • Romanticism • Routledge • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Satire • Science • Scientific Revolution • Spirituality • Suggestion • Summa Theologica • the new science • theory • The Other Hand • The Philosopher • Thought • Timaeus (dialogue) • treatise • Universal law • William Shakespeare • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3693-X / 140083693X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3693-2 / 9781400836932