Turning Traditions Upside Down: Rethinking Giordano Bruno's Enlightenment

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.

Table of Contents:
Preface: Yehuda Elkana and Jürgen Renn Introduction: Henning Hufnagel and Anne Eusterschulte Part 1 Epistemic Practices of a Revolutionary. Bruno’s Methods and Thinking Paul Richard Blum Giordano Bruno’s Changing of Default Positions Angelika Bönker-Vallon The Measurement of the Immeasurable. Divine Mind and Mathematical Structures in Giordano Bruno’s De triplici minimo et mensura Michele Ciliberto “…per speculum et in aenigmitate …” Anne Eusterschulte Platonic Caverns and Epicurean Worlds Part 2 Experience and Vision of a New Cosmic Order. Giordano Bruno’ Natural Philosophy Miguel A. Granada De immenso et innumerabilibus, I, 3, and the Concept of Planetary Systems in the Infinite Universe. A Commentary Wolfgang Neuser Atom, Matter and Monade Enrico Giannetto Giordano Bruno and the Relativity of Time Arcangelo Rossi Giordano Bruno and the New Order of Nature between Copernicus and Galilei Part 3 Forms of Non-Conformity. Bruno’s Works as Literary Texts Nuccio Ordine The Comic and Philosophy. Plato’s Philebus and Bruno's Candelbearer Sergius Kodera The (In)discreet Presence of Machiavelli in Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio Henning Hufnagel 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 Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann The Dialectic of the Absolute Beginning. On a Copper Engraving in Heinrich Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae Ingrid Rowland A Catholic Reader of Giordano Bruno in Counter-Reformation-Rome. Athanasius Kircher SJ and Panspermia Rerum Francois Quiviger 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) Durs Grünbein Flame and Wood. On Alexander Polzin’s Sculpture Giordano Bruno Alexander Polzin Giordano Bruno Appendix List of Contributors Index

About the Author :
Anne Eusterschulte is professor of philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. Henning Hufnagel is junior fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and member of the research group “Deutsche Ausgabe der Schriften Giordano Brunos.”