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Table of Contents YEHUDA ELKANA and JÜRGEN RENN Preface vii HENNING HUFNAGEL and ANNE EUSTERSCHULTE Introduction 1 PART 1 Epistemic Practices of a Revolutionary: Bruno’s Methods and Thinking PAUL RICHARD BLUM Giordano Bruno’s Changing of Default Positions 13 ANGELIKA BÖNKER-VALLON The Measurement of the Immeasurable. Divine Mind and Mathematical Structures in Giordano Bruno’s De triplici minimo et mensura 19 MICHELE CILIBERTO “…per speculum et in aenigmate…” 35 ANNE EUSTERSCHULTE Platonic Caverns and Epicurean Worlds 63 PART 2 Experience and Vision of a New Cosmic Order: Giordano Bruno’s Natural Philosophy MIGUEL ÁNGEL GRANADA De immenso et innumerabilibus, I, 3 and the Concept of Planetary Systems in the Infinite Universe. A Commentary 91 WOLFGANG NEUSER Atom, Matter, and Monade 107 ENRICO RENATO ANTONIO GIANNETTO Giordano Bruno and the Relativity of Time 121 ARCANGELO ROSSI Giordano Bruno and the New Order of Nature between Copernicus and Galilei 131 PART 3 Forms of Non-Conformity: Bruno’s Works as Literary Texts NUCCIO ORDINE The Comic and Philosophy: Plato’s Philebus and Bruno’s Candle-bearer 151 SERGIUS KODERA The (In)discreet Presence of Machiavelli in Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio 159 HENNING HUFNAGEL Bruno’s Cabala: Satire of Knowledge and the Uses of the Dialogue Form 179 PART 4 Reflections of an Intellectual Burning: Bruno’s Reception and Literary Afterlife WILHELM SCHMIDT-BIGGEMANN The Dialectic of the Absolute Beginning. On a Copper Engraving in Heinrich Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae 199 INGRID ROWLAND A Catholic Reader of Giordano Bruno in Counter-Reformation Rome: Athanasius Kircher, SJ and Panspermia Rerum 221 FRANÇOIS QUIVIGER From Paris to Rome, Hamburg and London. Aspects of the Afterlife of Giordano Bruno in the Twentieth Century 237 PART 5 Visibility of the Invisible: About the Sculpture Giordano Bruno by Alexander Polzin [2008] DURS GRÜNBEIN Flame and Wood. A Speech on the Occasion of the Unveiling of a Giordano Bruno Monument in Berlin 251 Color plates of the statue follow page 256 List of Contributors 257 Index Nominum 261 ...

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