Giordano Bruno : : an introduction / / Paul Richard Blum; translated from the German by Peter Henneveld.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series, v. 254
• Author: Blum, Paul Richard.
• TeilnehmendeR: Henneveld, Peter.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 254.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (135 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a philosopher in his own right. However, he was famous through the centuries due to his execution as a heretic. His pronouncements against teachings of the Catholic Church, his defence of the cosmology of Nicholas Copernicus, and his provocative personality, all this made him a paradigmatic figure of modernity. Bruno’s way of philosophizing is not looking for outright solutions but rather for the depth of the problems; he knows his predecessors and their strategies as well as their weaknesses, which he exposes satirically. This introduction helps to identify the original thought of Bruno who proudly said about himself: “Philosophy is my profession!” His major achievements concern the creativity of the human mind studied through the theory of memory, the infinity of the world, and the discovery of atomism for modernity. He never held a permanent office within or without the academic world. Therefore, the way of thinking of this “Knight Errant of Philosophy” will be presented along the stations of his journey through Western Europe.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- PLEASANT CAMPANIA: EDUCATION BEFORE AND IN THE CONVENT -- FLEEING INTO EXILE—NORTHERN ITALY, GENEVA, TOULOUSE: ASTRONOMY AS A MEANS OF EARNING A LIVING -- PARIS: THE POWER OF MEMORY -- OFF TO LONDON: SATIRE, METAPHYSICS, AND ETHICS IN ITALIAN -- GOD IS NOT IDLE: INFINITE POSSIBILITIES AND INFINITE REALITY -- RELIGION AND ETHICS FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE HERO -- RETURN TO PARIS: CHALLENGING MATHEMATICS AND ARISTOTELIANISM -- “HOUSES OF WISDOM” IN GERMANY: HISTORY, MAGIC, AND ATOMISM -- OFF TO VENICE: THE TRIAL OF THE HERETIC -- AFTERLIFE: FROM HERETIC TO HERMETICIST -- CHRONOLOGY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VIBS.