Lull & Bruno

Lull & Bruno
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9781135034139
ISBN-13 : 1135034133
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Lull & Bruno by : Francis A. Yates

First published in 1999.This is Volume VIII of ten of the selected works of Frances A. Yates. The studies reprinted here demonstrate not only the range of Frances A. Yate's learning but her determination to go to the root of a problem. In order to understand the thought of Giordano Bruno, Dame Frances found it necessary to investigate the role of Lullism in the Renaissance and this led her back three centuries to the origins of the Art of Ramon Lull.

Language and its Functions

Language and its Functions
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 613
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ISBN-10 : 9789027284372
ISBN-13 : 9027284377
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Language and its Functions by : Pieter A. Verburg

When Pieter Verburg (1905-1989) published Taal en Functionaliteit in 1952, the work was received with admiration by linguistic scholars, though the number of those who could read the Dutch text for themselves remained limited. The title alludes to the theories of linguistic function set out in 1936 by Karl Bühler, but Verburg regards the three functions of discourse — focussing respectively on the speaker, the person addressed and the matter discussed — as no more than sub-functions of the human function of speech. His central concern is to explore the relationships between thought and language, and language and reality; and the work sets out to provide a historical analysis of views on these relationships in the period 1100 to 1800. The great strength of the work lies in the way in which the views of language are related to contemporaneous moves in philosophy and science, contrasting essentially the mediaeval acceptance of authority, the beginnings of induction in the Renaissance, the dependence of early rationalism on calculation based on axiomatic truths, and the further development of independent observation. All these trends are reflected in the way men thought about language, as well as in the way they used it. Much has been written on the history of linguistics since this book was written, but it still offers a unique view of the development of thinking about language.

Logic and the Art of Memory

Logic and the Art of Memory
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 363
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ISBN-10 : 9781847144614
ISBN-13 : 1847144616
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Logic and the Art of Memory by : Paolo Rossi

A brilliant translation of this classic account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination, the two traditions deriving from the Classical world and the late medieval period, and becoming intertwined in the 16th Century. From this intertwining emerged a new tradition, a grandiose project for an 'alphabet of the world' or 'Clavis Universalis'. Translated with an Introduction by Stephen Clucas.

Essays on Giordano Bruno

Essays on Giordano Bruno
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 9781400836932
ISBN-13 : 140083693X
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Essays on Giordano Bruno by : Hilary Gatti

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 "tranquil universal philosophy" 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.

Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe

Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9781108470278
ISBN-13 : 1108470270
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe by : George McClure

The classical tradition -- Renaissance antihero: Leon Battista Alberti's Momus, the novel -- Momus and the Reformation -- The execution of Giordano Bruno -- Milton's Lucifer -- God of modern criticks -- Momus and modernism

Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism

Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism
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Publisher : Central European University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9786155053788
ISBN-13 : 6155053782
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism by : Moshe Idel

Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images of the ascent, like the resort to images of pillars, lines, and ladders. After surveying the variety of scholarly approaches to religion, the author also offers what he proposes as an eclectic approach, and a perspectivist one. The latter recommends to examine religious phenomena from a variety of perspectives. The author investigates the specific issue of the pillar in Jewish mysticism by comparing it to the archaic resort to pillars recurring in rural societies. Given the fact that the ascent of the soul and pillars constituted the concerns of two main Romanian scholars of religion, Ioan P. Culianu and Mircea Eliade, Idel resorts to their views, and in the Concluding Remarks analyzes the emergence of Eliade's vision of Judaism on the basis of neglected sources.

Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories

Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 620
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ISBN-10 : 9789004453968
ISBN-13 : 9004453962
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories by :

This volume deals with corpuscular matter theory that was to emerge as the dominant model in the seventeenth century. By retracing atomist and corpuscularian ideas to a variety of mutually independent medieval and Renaissance sources in natural philosophy, medicine, alchemy, mathematics, and theology, this volume shows the debt of early modern matter theory to previous traditions and thereby explains its bewildering heterogeneity. The book assembles nineteen carefully selected contributions by some of the most notable historians of medieval and early modern philosophy and science. All chapters present new research results and will therefore be of interest to historians of philosophy, science, and medicine between 1150 and 1750.

Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9789004487482
ISBN-13 : 9004487484
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Finnegans Wake by :

This is a collection by diverse hands on the thematic, conceptual and contextual impact of time in and around Joyce's Finnegans Wake. In keeping with the practice of the Zürich James Joyce Foundation workshops, from one of which, over Easter 1992, the collection developed, many essays emphasize the local temporal textures of Finnegans Wake through close readings of individual passages. However, this does not preclude fruitful interaction with wider contexts and theoretical concerns. Two articles are detailed studies of social and political contemporary contexts with which Joyce's last work was in dialogue. Three more explore philosophical, psychological and scientific theories of time which Joyce exploited and transformed in his text. Two essays relate Finnegans Wake to discussions of time in French feminist and deconstructive theory: and finally, four essays concentrate on the temporality of composition - two apiece on each of the chronology of Joyce's early note-taking and draft processes. The collection should prove interesting to all readers and critics of Joyce as well as to critics concerned with the problem of historicizing and contextualising the temporally disruptive texts of high modernism and early postmodernism.

Magic

Magic
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780262371247
ISBN-13 : 0262371243
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Magic by : Jamie Sutcliffe

The first accessible reader on magic’s generative relationship with contemporary art practice. From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and often disorienting bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences animating contemporary art’s varied encounters with magical culture, inspiring a reconsideration of the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic. Dispensing with simple narratives of reenchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture’s tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care. Tracing its various emergences through the shadows of modernity, the circuitries of ritual media, and declarations of psychic self-defence, Magic deciphers the evolution of a “magical-critical” thinking that productively complicates, contradicts and expands the boundaries of our increasingly weird present.

Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno
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Publisher : Brill
Total Pages : 135
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ISBN-10 : 9789401208291
ISBN-13 : 9401208298
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Giordano Bruno by : Paul Richard Blum

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.