Ars memoriae and scriptura interna : : a metaphorological account on the De umbris idearum / / Sara Taglialatela.

• VerfasserIn: Taglialatela, Sara,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : V&R Unipress,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (183 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Preface
• List of figures
• Notes on the text
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Mnemonics and theories of the memory
• 1. Definition of the field of research (1): Mnemonics and memory theories
• 2. Definition of the field of research (2): Selection of the sources for the history of mnemonics
• 2.1 Latin sources for mnemonics
• 2.1.1 Rhetorica ad Herennium
• 2.1.2 Cicero, De oratore
• 2.1.3 Quintilian, Institutio oratoria
• 2.2 Greek philosophical sources for mnemonics: Aristotle's doctrine of the soul
• 2.3 Mediaeval sources for mnemonics (1): Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas
• 2.4 Mediaeval sources for mnemonics (2): Augustine and Ramon Llull
• 3. Definition of the field of research (3): Mnemonics in the sixteenth century
• Chapter 2: Studying Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae from a metaphorological perspective
• 1. Definition of the research objective (1): Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae
• 2. Definition of the research object (2): Analysis of three methodological approaches
• 2.1 Paolo Rossi: "Landing on the continent of memory"
• 2.2 Frances A. Yates: Mnemonics and the Hermetic tradition
• 2.3 Mary Carruthers: Creative thinking in mediaeval memory systems
• 3. Definition of the research objective (3): The metaphor of inner writing in Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae
• Chapter 3: Hans Blumenberg as an interpreter of the Modern Age: A critique of the historical category of secularization
• 1. The twofold centrality of Die Legitimität der Neuzeit
• 2. Critique of the historical-interpretative category of secularization (Säkularisierung)
• 2.1 The legitimization of a historical period
• 2.2 Against the underlying theologism of the secularization category (1): On the use of the secularization concept.
• 2.3 Against the underlying theologism of the secularization category (2): A functionalistic vision of the concepts or of the good use of analogies
• 3. The formation of the Modern Age
• 3.1 The thesis: The Modern Age as a second overcoming of Gnosis
• 3.2 The ˋepochal threshold' (Epochenschwelle)
• 3.3 The origin of evil in the world
• 3.4 ˋSelf-assertion' (Selbstbehauptung) and the first of the two key comparative analyses
• Chapter 4: From metaphorology as an auxiliary discipline of the history of philosophy to metaphorology as a discipline of attention
• 1. Metaphorology as an auxiliary discipline of the history of philosophy
• 1.1 Metaphor, concept, and history
• 1.2 The Kantian origins of the problem of the absolute metaphor
• 1.3 Absolute metaphors have history (beyond the Kantian historical apriorism)
• 2. Historical reconstruction of philosophical theories of the metaphor, with reference to Hans Blumenberg's metaphor theory
• 2.1 Aristotle: Definition of the research space
• 2.2 A history of the reception of Poetics and Rhetoric
• 2.3 The twentieth century: "The age of metaphoromania"
• 2.4 Hans Blumenberg and the revival of the Aristotelian discussion framework
• 3. Metaphorology as a discipline of attention
• 3.1 Stimulus-reaction or stimulus-dilation
• 3.2 The rise of philosophy from ˋpensiveness' (Nachdenklichkeit)
• 3.3 A phenomenological-anthropological reply to Kant
• Chapter 5: On Blumenberg's interpretation of Giordano Bruno
• 1. Giordano Bruno, philosopher of Copernicanism
• 1.1 The second of two comparative model analyses: Nicholas of Cusa and Giordano Bruno
• 2. The metaphor of the world as a book
• 2.1 Ernst R. Curtius, Erich Rothacker, Hans Blumenberg: Three approaches to the study of the metaphor of the book.
• 2.2 The absolute metaphor of the world as a book: A metaphor for the experimentability of everything
• 3. A critique of Blumenberg's interpretation of Bruno
• 4. Metaphors for memory and mnemonics
• 4.1 Metaphors for natural memory
• 4.2 Metaphors for artificial memory
• 5. The metaphor of inner writing as an absolute metaphor
• Chapter 6: "Ad internam scripturam, et non vulgares per memoriam operationes explicates"
• 1. Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae (1): Consistency, novelty, and excess as regards the tradition of the mnemonic arts
• 2. Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae (2): Consistency and novelty as regards the tradition of the mnemonic arts
• 2.1 The subiecta
• 2.2 The adiecta or formae
• 2.3 The organum
• 2.4 A technique of inner writing for images: The metaphor of inner writing as a leading paradigm of conceptual formulation
• 3. Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae (3): An excess in the wake of the tradition of the mnemonic arts
• 3.1 Criticism of ars memoriae
• 3.2 A unique ars: Metaphor of the shadow and metaphor of inner writing
• Concluding remarks
• Bibliography
• Figures.