Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 271 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300058527
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0300242239
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9780300058529
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9780300242232
Originaltitel:
Cabala dell'asino
Inhalt:
In this highly original study, Nuccio Ordine uses the figure of the ass as a lens through which to focus on the thought and writings of the great Renaissance humanist philosopher Giordano Bruno. The donkey played a prominent role as a symbol in sixteenth-century literature, and the ass and human asininity became a recurring motif in Bruno's writings. Ordine offers the first analysis of Bruno's use of this complex symbol, which encompasses contradictory characteristics ranging from humble and hardworking to ignorant and idle. The result is a deeper understanding of Bruno the philosopher, along with a stronger appreciation of Bruno the literary artist
Inhalt:
Ordine looks especially closely at Bruno's use of the figure of the donkey in his attacks on the theologies of both the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, and in issues that have become modernist concerns. Ordine's analysis sheds light on each of the major themes of Bruno's philosophy: science and knowledge, myth and religion, language and literature
Inhalt:
Foreword / Eugenio Garin -- 1. Bruno and the Ass: A Long-Deferred Question -- 2. Myths, Fables, Tales: the "Asinine" Materials -- 3. The Ass and Mercury: A Key to Coincidentia Oppositorum -- 4. The Ambiguous Space of Asininity -- 5. Man and the Ass, between "Bestiality" and "Divinity" -- 6. Positive Asininity: Toil, Humility, Tolerance -- 7. Negative Asininity: Idleness, Arrogance, Unidimensionality -- 8. The Oration of Fortune -- 9. In the Labyrinth of Truth -- 10. From Orion to Chiron: Opposing Images of the Religious Cult -- 11. The Ass in the Guise of the Sileni: Appearances Are Deceptive -- 12. The Literature of the Ass before Bruno -- 13. The Entropy of Writing -- 14. Natural Science and Human Science: A "Nouvelle Alliance."
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-268) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ordine, Nuccio, 1958- Giordano Bruno and the philosophy of the ass New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996
Sprache:
Englisch
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Mehr zum Autor:
Ordine, Nuccio 1958-
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