Giordano Bruno and the philosophy of the ass /
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 asi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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."