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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ordine, Nuccio, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Bruno, Giordano, > 1548-1600.
Bruno, Giordano, > 1548-1600
1500-1599
Mental efficiency > History > 16th century.
Donkeys > Miscellanea.
Equidae.
Humanism > history
Literature > history
Mental Competency
Equidae
Efficience (Psychologie) > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Équidés.
PETS > General.
Donkeys.
Mental efficiency.
Dwaasheid.
Ezels.
History.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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