Turning Traditions Upside Down: Rethinking Giordano Bruno's Enlightenment

List of Contributors

List of Contributors Paul Richard Blum is T. J. Higgins, S. J., Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore. He is member of the research group dedicated to the German edition of Bruno’s works, “Deutsche Ausgabe der Schriften Giordano Brunos.” On Giordano Bruno he published, among others, an introduction (Munich, 1999), which is scheduled to be published in English by Rodopi; he edited Philosophers of the Renaissance (Washington , 2010), and authored Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance (Aldershot, 2010). Angelika Bönker-Vallon is a lecturer of philosophy at the University of Kassel and member of the research group “Deutsche Ausgabe der Schriften Giordano Brunos.” She has published numerous articles on Giordano Bruno in international journals. Her books include Metaphysik und Mathematik bei Giordano Bruno (Berlin, 1995), the edition and translation of Giordano Bruno’s De l’infinito, universo et mondi—Über das Unendliche, das Universum und die Welten (Hamburg, 2007), and of his La cena de le ceneri—Das Aschermittwochsmahl (Hamburg, 2012). Michele Ciliberto is professor of philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore , Pisa. He has been president of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento in Florence since 1996 and is member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He has edited Bruno’s dialogues in the “Meridiani” collection of classical texts (Milan, 2000). Amongst his numerous other books are: Pensare per contrari. Disincanto e utopia nel Rinascimento (Rome , 2005), Giordano Bruno. Il teatro della vita (Milan, 2007), and Biblioteca laica. Il pensiero libero dell’Italia moderna (Rome, 2009). Anne Eusterschulte is professor of philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin . Selected publications: Analogia entis seu mentis. Analogie als erkenntnistheoretisches Prinzip in der Philosophie Giordano Brunos (Würzburg, 1997), Kant-Reader: Probleme und Perspektiven der Kant’schen Philo- 258 List of contributors sophie (ed. with H. Ingensiep, and H. Baranzke, Würzburg, 2004), and Mimesis oder ästhetische Wahrheit. Philosophisch-theologische Voraussetzungen und geistesgeschichtlicher Kontext der Entwicklung eines ästhetischen Wahrheitsbegriffs (Berlin, 2012). Enrico Renato Antonio Giannetto is professor of History of Science and Head of the Philosophical Doctorate School in Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity at the University of Bergamo. He is also the president of the Italian Society of History of Physics and Astronomy. He has published three major books: Saggi di Storie del Pensiero Scientifico (Bergamo, 2005), Il vangelo di Giuda—traduzione dal copto e commento (Milan, 2006), and Un fisico delle origini. Heidegger, la scienza e la Natura (Rome, 2010). Miguel Ángel Granada is professor of history of philosophy at the University of Barcelona. Selected publications: Giordano Bruno: universo infinito , unión con Dios, perfección del hombre (Barcelona, 2002), La reivindicaci ón de la filosofía en Giordano Bruno (Barcelona, 2005), “L’héliocentrisme de Giordano Bruno entre 1584 et 1591: la disposition des planètes inférieures et les mouvements de la terre.” Bruniana & Campanelliana 16 (2010): 31–50. Durs Grünbein is one of Germany’s most acclaimed contemporary poets. Besides numerous collections of poetry, he has authored several volumes of essays and translations from Greek and Latin. Amongst his major literary prizes is Germany’s most prestigious prize, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, which he won at the age of thirty-three. His work has also been translated into English: Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems (New York, 2005), Descartes’ Devil: Three Meditations (New York, 2010), and The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays (New York, 2010). Henning Hufnagel is junior fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and member of the research group “Deutsche Ausgabe der Schriften Giordano Brunos.” Selected publications: Ein Stück von jeder Wissenschaft. Gattungshybridisierung, Argumentation und Erkenntnis in Giordano Brunos italienischen Dialogen (Stuttgart, 2009), “‘Pour abréger votre chemin à l’un et à l’autre’. Plötzlichkeit in Marivaux’ La surprise de l’amour.” Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 60, 4 (2010): 389–404, “‘Nun, Schifflein! sieh’ dich vor!’—Meerfahrt mit Nietzsche. Zu einem Motiv der Fröhlichen Wissenschaft.” Nietzsche-Studien 37 (2008): 143–59. Sergius Kodera is Head of the Cultural Studies Department at New Design University, St. Pölten, Lower Austria. He also teaches at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna and at Kunstuniversit ät Linz and is member of the research group “Deutsche Ausgabe der Schriften Giordano Brunos.” Recent publications: Disreputable Bodies. Magic, Gender, and Medicine in Renaissance Natural Philosophy (Toronto , 2010), the edition and translation of Giordano Bruno’s Cabala del cavallo pegaseo—Die Kabbala des...