Giordano Bruno And The Kabbalah

Author : Karen Silvia DeLe¢n-Jones
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803266464
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah written by Karen Silvia DeLe¢n-Jones and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giordano Bruno (1548?1600), a defrocked Dominican monk, was convicted of heresy by the Roman Catholic Inquisition and burned at the stake in Rome. He had spent fifteen years wandering throughout Europe on the run from Counter-Reformation intelligence and eight years in prison under interrogation. The author of more than sixty works on mathematics, science, ethics, philosophy, metaphysics, the art of memory and esoteric mysticism, Bruno had a profound impact on Western thought. Until now his involvement with Jewish mysticism has never been fully explored. Karen Silvia de Le¢n-Jones presents an engaging and illuminating discussion of his mystical understanding and use of Jewish and Christian Kabbalah, theology, and philosophy, including the famous Hermetica, and especially his exploration and use of magic to reveal the mysteries of the universe and the divine.

Author : Karen Silvia DeLeón-Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300239416
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah written by Karen Silvia DeLeón-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : De León-Jones
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah written by De León-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Silvia DeLeón-Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets, Magicians and Rabbis written by Karen Silvia DeLeón-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Giordano Bruno
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030012791X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cabala of Pegasus written by Giordano Bruno and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 16th-century work consists of vernacular dialogues that turn on the identification of the noble Pegasus (the spirit of poetry) and the humble ass (the vehicle of divine revelation). Bruno explores the nature of poetry, divine authority, secular learning and Pythagorean metempsychosis.

Author : Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466895845
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giordano Bruno written by Ingrid D. Rowland and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. By the time Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 on Rome's Campo dei Fiori, he had taught in Naples, Rome, Venice, Geneva, France, England, Germany, and the "magic Prague" of Emperor Rudolph II. His powers of memory and his provocative ideas about the infinity of the universe had attracted the attention of the pope, Queen Elizabeth—and the Inquisition, which condemned him to death in Rome as part of a yearlong jubilee. Writing with great verve and sympathy for her protagonist, Rowland traces Bruno's wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where every certainty of religion and philosophy had been called into question and shows him valiantly defending his ideas (and his right to maintain them) to the very end. An incisive, independent thinker just when natural philosophy was transformed into modern science, he was also a writer of sublime talent. His eloquence and his courage inspired thinkers across Europe, finding expression in the work of Shakespeare and Galileo. Giordano Bruno allows us to encounter a legendary European figure as if for the first time.

Author : Frances A. Yates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317973798
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad written by Frances A. Yates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. This is volume II which includes the English translation of Giordano Bruno's selected works of the Hermetic Tradition, from 1964.

Author : Arielle Saiber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351933671
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language written by Arielle Saiber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language brings to the fore a sixteenth-century philosopher's role in early modern Europe as a bridge between science and literature, or more specifically, between the spatial paradigm of geometry and that of language. Arielle Saiber examines how, to invite what Bruno believed to be an infinite universe-its qualities and vicissitudes-into the world of language, Bruno forged a system of 'figurative' vocabularies: number, form, space, and word. This verbal and symbolic system in which geometric figures are seen to underlie rhetorical figures, is what Saiber calls 'geometric rhetoric.' Through analysis of Bruno's writings, Saiber shows how Bruno's writing necessitates a crafting of space, and is, in essence, a lexicon of spatial concepts. This study constitutes an original contribution both to scholarship on Bruno and to the fields of early modern scientific and literary studies. It also addresses the broader question of what role geometry has in the formation of any language and literature of any place and time.

Author : Paul Richard Blum
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9401208298
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giordano Bruno written by Paul Richard Blum and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Hilary Gatti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giordano Bruno written by Hilary Gatti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome in 1600, accused of heresy by the Inquisition. His life took him from Italy to Northern Europe and England, and finally to Venice, where he was arrested. His six dialogues in Italian, today considered a turning point towards the philosophy and science of the modern world, were written during his visit to Elizabethan London. He died refusing to recant views which he defined as philosophical rather than theological, and for which he claimed liberty of expression. The papers in this volume derive from a conference commemorating the 400th anniversary of Bruno's death. Some focus on his experience in England, others on the Italian context of his thought and his impact upon others. Together they constitute a major new survey of the range of Bruno's philosophical activity, as well as evaluating his use of earlier cultural traditions and his influence on both contemporary and more modern themes and trends.