Giordano Bruno and the Philosophy of the Ass /

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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 for Bruno the ass and...

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Main Author: Ordine, Nuccio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Garin, Eugenio (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Donkeys > Miscellanea
Mental efficiency > History > 16th century
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t Foreword --   |t Preface --   |t Abbreviations --   |t 1 Bruno and the Ass: A Long-Deferred Questlon --   |t 2 Myths, Fables, Tales: The "Asinine" Materials --   |t 3 The Ass and Mercury: A Key to Coincidentla Oppositorum --   |t 4 The Ambiguous Space of Asininity --   |t 5 Man and the Ass, between "Bestiality" and "Divinity" --   |t 6 Positive Asininity Toil, Humility, Tolerance --   |t 7 Negative Asininity: Idleness, Arrogance, Unidimensionality --   |t 8 The Oration of Fortune --   |t 9 In the Labyrinth of Truth --   |t 10 From Orion to Chiron: Opposing Images of the Religious Cult --   |t 11 The Ass in the Guise of the Sileni: Appearances Are Deceptive --   |t 12 The Literature of the Ass before Bruno --   |t 13 The Entropy of Writing --   |t 14 Natural Science and Human Science: A "Nouvelle Alliance" --   |t Iconographical Collection --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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520 |a 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 for Bruno the ass and human asininity became a recurring motif in his writings. Ordine offers the first analysis of Bruno's use of this complex symbol, which encompasses contradictory characteristics ranging from humble and hardworking to ignorant and idle. The result is a deeper understanding of Bruno the philosopher, along with a stronger appreciation of Bruno the literary artist.Ordine looks especially closely at Bruno's use of the figure of the donkey in his attacks on the theologies of both the Reformation and the Counter Reformation, and in issues that have become modernist concerns. Ordine's analysis sheds light on each of the major themes of Bruno's philosophy: science and knowledge, myth and religion, language and literature.Widely acclaimed when it was first published in Italian in 1987, Ordine's book is now available in English for the first time, bringing his intriguing insights to a new readership 
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