Giordano Bruno And The Kabbalah

Author : Karen Silvia DeLe¢n-Jones
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780803266469

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Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah by Karen Silvia DeLe¢n-Jones Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0300239416

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Giordano Bruno and the Kabbalah by Karen Silvia DeLeón-Jones Pdf

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 : Giordano Bruno
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300127911

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Cabala of Pegasus by Giordano Bruno Pdf

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
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466895843

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Giordano Bruno by Ingrid D. Rowland Pdf

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
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317973799

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Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad by Frances A. Yates Pdf

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
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351933674

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Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language by Arielle Saiber Pdf

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 : Miss I. Frith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Authors, Italian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020027871

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Life of Giordano Bruno, the Nolan by Miss I. Frith Pdf

Author : Paul Richard Blum
Publisher : Brill
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401208291

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Giordano Bruno by Paul Richard Blum Pdf

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 : Henning S. Hufnagel,Anne Eusterschulte
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9786155053634

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Turning Traditions Upside Down by Henning S. Hufnagel,Anne Eusterschulte Pdf

Proceedings of a colloquium held in 2008 at Central European University.

Author : Frances Amelia Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034283197

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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Amelia Yates Pdf

Placing Bruno--both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake--in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplay--and conflict--with magic and occult practices. "Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century no one in England can rival Miss Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates. Now she has looked on Bruno. This brilliant book takes time to digest, but it is an intellectual adventure to read it. Historians of ideas, of religion, and of science will study it. Some of them, after reading it, will have to think again. . . . For Miss Yates has put Bruno, for the first time, in his tradition, and has shown what that tradition was."--Hugh Trevor-Roper, New Statesman "A decisive contribution to the understanding of Giordano Bruno, this book will probably remove a great number of misrepresentations that still plague the tormented figure of the Nolan prophet."--Giorgio de Santillana, American Historical Review "Yates's book is an important addition to our knowledge of Giordano Bruno. But it is even more important, I think, as a step toward understanding the unity of the sixteenth century."--J. Bronowski, New York Review of Books

Author : Lee Irwin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498554084

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Reincarnation in America by Lee Irwin Pdf

Reincarnation in America: An Esoteric History surveys the complex history of reincarnation theories across multiple fields of discourse in a pre-American context, ranging from early Greek traditions to Medieval Christian theories, Renaissance esotericism, and European Kabbalah, all of which had adherents that brought those theories to America. Rebirth theories are shown in all these groups to be highly complex and often disjunctive with mainstream religions even though members of conventional religions frequently affirm the possibility of rebirth. As a history of an idea, reincarnation theory is a current, vital belief pattern that cuts across a wide spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific domains in a long, complex history not reducible to any specific religious or theoretical explanation. This book is cross-disciplinary and multicultural, linking religious studies perspectives with science based research; it draws upon many distinct disciplines and avoids reduction of reincarnation to any specific theory. The underlying thesis is to demonstrate the complexity of reincarnation theories; what is unique is the historical overview and the gradual shift away from religious theories of rebirth to new theories that are therapeutic and trans-traditional.

Author : Katherine Eggert
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247510

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Disknowledge by Katherine Eggert Pdf

Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying on alchemy despite its recognized flaws.

Author : Manuel Mertens
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004372672

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Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno by Manuel Mertens Pdf

Manuel Mertens guides the reader through Bruno’s mnemonic palaces, and shows how these fascinating intellectual constructions of the famous heretic philosopher can be called magical.

Author : Tomáš Nejeschleba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115142585

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Philosophy of Giordano Bruno by Tomáš Nejeschleba Pdf

Author : Bruce Janacek
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271078021

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Alchemical Belief by Bruce Janacek Pdf

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective, Janacek presents it as integrated into the broader political, philosophical, and religious upheavals of the first half of the seventeenth century, arguing that the interest of these elite figures in alchemy was part of an understanding that supported their national—and in some cases royalist—loyalty and theological orthodoxy. Janacek investigates how and why individuals who supported or were actually placed at the traditional center of power in England’s church and state believed in the relevance of alchemy at a time when their society, their government, their careers, and, in some cases, their very lives were at stake.