Turning Traditions Upside Down: Rethinking Giordano Bruno's Enlightenment (Hardcover)

Preface:
Yehuda Elkana and Jurgen 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 Bonker-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 Grunbein
Flame and Wood. On Alexander Polzin's Sculpture Giordano Bruno

Alexander Polzin
Giordano Bruno

Appendix
List of Contributors
Index