Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 273 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300068077
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0300239416
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9780300068078
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9780300239416
Serie:
Yale studies in hermeneutics
Inhalt:
In this major new interpretation of the thought of the heretical philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Karen de Leon-Jones depicts the influential thinker as mystic and Kabbalistic. She rejects the popular view of Bruno as Hermetic magus - a position initiated by Frances Yates and widely accepted by succeeding scholars. Bruno's interest in mysticism and the Kabbalah was not merely intellectual or satiric, de Leon-Jones contends: a close look at his study of the Kabbalah reveals him as a practicing believer. This book sets Bruno's thought in the context of the widespread interest in non-Christian religions in fifteenth- and sixteenth century Italy. His quest for an alternative model to the strict spirituality of post-Reformation churches, for a way to encompass both scientific and mystical views of the universe, led Bruno to the Kabbalah. De Leon-Jones argues that Bruno's dialogue Cabala del cavallo (Kabbalah of the pegasean horse) expressed his mystical, kabbalistic doctrine. For Bruno, the Kabbalah reconciled science with theology and provided a biblical support for theories such as metempsychosis that he wished to prove scientifically through atomic theory and physiognomy. Balancing his mystical Cabala dialogue with the Hermetic vein of his dialogue Spaccio della bestia trionfante and the Napoleonic emblems of De'li eroici furori, Bruno creates a solid syncretic trilogy, as well as a strikingly modern apology for scientific and philosophical debates still of interest today
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index
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1. Nola, the Nolan, and the "Nolana Filosofia" -- 2. Bruno's Kabbalistic System -- 3. The Sefirot -- 4. Hokhmah, Minerva, and Sofia-Sapienza -- 5. Ignoranza, Sofia, and Verita -- 6. Metempsychosis -- 7. The Ass, the Asino Cillenico, and the Cavallo Pegaseo -- 8. Rabbis, Hebrew Doctors, and the Symbol of the Ass -- 9. The Prophet Balaam and the Prophetic Ass -- 10. The Prophet Moses -- 11. The Prophet Solomon -- 12. The Prophetic Allegory -- 13. Prophets, Magicians, and Rabbis -- Appendix 1. The Actaeion Emblems from Eroici Furori -- Appendix 2. The Sun Emblems from Eroici Furori -- Appendix 3. The Emblems of the Nine Lovers from Eroici Furori -- Appendix 4. The Nine Orders of Blindness from Eroici Furori.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe DeLeón-Jones, Karen Silvia Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1997
Sprache:
Englisch
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