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Magic and memory in Giordano Bruno : the art of a heroic spirit /
In Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno Manuel Mertens unravels the enigmatic knot between the mnemonic treatises and the magical writings of the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno. Since long the magical orientation of the Brunian art of memory has been a preoccupation for Bruno sch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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| Colección: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno: Towards a More Encompassing Perspective; 1.1 Changing Perspectives on Magic and Memory; 1.1.1 The Blind Spot in Tocco's Perspective; 1.1.2 The Focus in Yates's Perspective; 1.1.3 Rita Sturlese's Interpretation of Bruno's memoria verborum; 1.1.4 Post-Sturlesian Interpretations; 1.1.5 Conclusion; 1.2 Towards a Broader Perspective; Chapter 2 Special Features of Magical and Mnemonic Writings in the Sixteenth Century; 2.1 Masked on the Literary Stage?
- 2.2 The Contradictions in the Mnemonic Works in View of Bruno's Conception of Magic2.2.1 Magic and Censorship: Prints and Manuscripts; 2.2.2 Bruno's Reading, Writing, and Reception in Relation to Censorship; 2.2.3 Bruno's Conception of Magic; 2.2.4 Out of the Impasse; 2.3 Writing on Memory: Cryptic Publications and Oral Teaching; 2.3.1 The Art of Memory in an Age of Printing; 2.3.2 Lambert Thomas Schenkel: Life and Career; 2.3.3 Schenkel's Mnemonics, Suspected of Magic; 2.3.4 Cryptic Writings on the Art of Memory; 2.3.5 Writing Strategy in Bruno's Mnemonic Treatises; 2.4 Conclusion.
- Chapter 3 The Concept of Similitudo3.1 Similitudo from Foucault to Sturlese; 3.2 In Search of a Definition of Similitudo; 3.2.1 Similitudo as an External Conformity?; 3.2.2 "A qualification of similitudo should be pointed out"; 3.3 The Function of Similitudo; 3.3.1 "An almost divine invention"; 3.3.2 A More Contracted and a More General Form of the Art; 3.3.3 The Banner; 3.3.4 Laws of Psychic Association; 3.3.5 "By a certain magical power similars are attracted through similars"; 3.4 The Aim Expressed by Similitudo; 3.4.1 The God's-Eye View; 3.4.2 The Magical Writings.
- Chapter 4 A Spirit-Regulating Art4.1 Spirits in the Ventricles; 4.1.1 Ventricles in the Brain; 4.1.2 Personal and Universal Spirit; 4.2 An Internal Art and Its Inner Tool; 4.2.1 "An art of this kind inhabits the essence itself of the whole soul"; 4.2.2 The Inner Tool, or Scrutinium, and Its Five Actions; 4.3 The Map of the Mind; 4.4 Belief and Deceit; 4.5 Deceiving Demons in the Early Mnemonic Treatises; 4.5.1 De umbris idearum/Ars memoriae; 4.5.2 Cantus Circaeus; Conclusion; Bibliographical Note; Major Editions; Bruno's Works Used in this Book; Historical Documents.
- English Translations Used in this BookBibliography; Index of Modern Authors; Index of Subjects and Names.