By Anne Eusterschulte, Henning Hufnagel
The contributions of a few of the main eminent students drawn to Giordano Bruno current an exhaustive review of the state of the art examine on Bruno s paintings discussing Bruno s epistemic and literary practices, his typical philosophy, or his function as theologian and metaphysic on the state of the art in their disciplines. The e-book additionally displays facets of Bruno s reception long ago and at the present time, in and out academia.
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He can, as taught by the ars, decipher and penetrate into the structures of reality through the enigma, but the enigma, the image, is coessential to the human condition. This lexical and conceptual area makes its appearance each time the problem of the first truth and of human knowledge appears; ‘mirror,’ ‘image,’ ‘similitude,’ ‘enigma’… This is not a linguistic choice, but rather an intuition of reality that finds an articulated and complete expression in these lemmas. The result of the human effort, however, is not negative or unsuccessful, as the ars confirms.
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