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This is a collection of essays on various aspects of Giordano Bruno´s philosophy. After a general introduction into his thought, his Spaccio de la bestia trionfante is most prominent. Bruno´s style and language, and his views on languages are a recurrent topic on these pages. For him, Truth itself is transcendent and unattainable in its fullness. Therefore, all knowledge "around" it is a construct that requires to be embodied and expressed in a certain medium, a language, mathematics being just one among many possible and suitable choices.

Elisabeth Blum teaches philosophy at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore. Among other publications, she translated Bruno´s Spaccio into German.

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Giordano Bruno - Ein Komet fliegt durch Galaxien der Bedeutung

Biographie

Das Scholastische System im Mittelalter

Die Krise des Weltbilds in der Renaissance

Giordano Brunos philosophisches Gesamtsystem

Synopsis: Giordano Bruno - A Comet Flying through Galaxies of Sense

La religione e la politica nel pensiero di Giordano Bruno

Dissimulazioni, interpretazioni e proiezioni.

Lo Spaccio, testo chiave per la critica delle religioni

Apparenti contradizioni

La triade della somma verità

La religione-legge

La fede-contratto

La geografia dei valori

Ogni cosa al proprio posto

L´intenzione della critica

Il Cristianesimo, un male necessario

Un Bruno teologo?

Synopsis: Religion and Politics in Giordano Bruno´s Philosophy

Giordano Bruno´s Criticism of Globalization

The Argonauts´ Voyage - Blessing or Bane?

Back to the Golden Age?

The Effects of Change in Space and in Time

Justified versus Unjustified Expansion

Conflicting Forces: The Tension between Universal
Providence, Chance, and Human Agency in Giordano Bruno´s Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast

Bruno´s Take on Terminology

Fate

Providence

Fortuna

Human Will and Agency

Rival Modes of Causation

Qua Giordano parla per volgare: Giordano Bruno´s Choice
of Vernacular Language, Vulgar Speech and Literary
Devices in his Italian Dialogues as Clues to a Heterodox Cultural Background

Pietro Aretino with Colleagues, Friends and Foes

A Comeback for Roland

Heterodoxy, Italian Style

Back to Bruno´s Bestiary

Der Olympische Hofstaat im Kopf

Synopsis: The Olympian Court in the Head

Index

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