THE PHILOSOPHY OF GIORDANO BRUNO
9 Sept. – Dec. 2014, The Warburg Institute
The Seminar includes eleven seminars of 1 hour, 30 minutes each, in the Autumn Term, 2014. It focuses on Bruno’s philosophy (rather than his mnemotechnics). Each seminar will begin with a close reading of one or two passages from Bruno’s Italian or Latin works, which will then (it is hoped) lead to further discussion of the seminar topic in relation to Bruno and Renaissance philosophy more generally. Passages will be posted online in advance of each seminar, together with lists of translations available in various modern languages.
- Introduction: Life and Works
- Copernicanism
- The infinite universe and plurality of worlds
- The World Soul
- Matter
- Matter (cont.)
- God and nature
- Individual souls and metempsychosis
- The wisdom of the ancients
- Scripture
- Faith and reason: Bruno’s trial
The editions of Bruno’s works used for the Seminar are:
- Opere italiane, 2 vols, UTET, Torino, 2002 (hardback), 2010 (paperback), 2013 (Kindle).
- Opera latine conscripta, 3 vols in 8 pts, ed. F. Fiorentino, F. Tocco, and others. Naples and Florence, 1879-91, reprinted: Stuttgart, 1962. A pdf of the 1879-91 edition can be downloaded from the Institute’s Biblioteca bruniana electronica.
Location Details: The Warburg Institute, Classroom 1, Tuesdays, 5.30-7.00, 30. Beginning on the 9 September 2014.
Organized by Dilwyn Knox (UCL) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg).
