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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450143103321

Autore

Bruno Giordano <1548-1600, >

Titolo

Cause, principle, and unity / / translated and edited by Robert de Lucca ; Essays on magic / Giordano Bruno ; translated and edited by Richard J. Blackwell ; with an introduction by Alfonso Ingegno [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1998

ISBN

1-107-11450-0

0-511-00557-1

1-280-42933-X

1-139-16422-8

0-511-17218-4

0-511-15029-6

0-511-32317-4

0-511-05018-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxvi, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

BrunoGiordano <1548-1600.>

Disciplina

195

Soggetti

Metaphysics

Magic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cause, principle and unity --- On magic --- A general account of bonding.

Sommario/riassunto

Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. In his philosophical works he addressed such delicate issues as the role of Christ as mediator and the distinction, in human beings, between soul and matter. This volume presents new translations of Cause, Principle and Unity, in which he challenges Aristotelian accounts of causality and spells out the implications of Copernicanism for a new theory of an infinite universe, and of two essays on magic, On Magic and A General Account of Bonding, in which he interprets earlier theories about



magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena.