Giordano Bruno

A treatment of party identification, in which three political scientists argue that identification with political parties powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. They build a case for the continuing theoretical and political significance of partisan identities.

A tradução foi feita a partir da comparação dos textos dos 'Dialoghi Metafisici', edições revistas e anotadas por Giovanni Gentile, Bari, Gius. Laterza, 1907, 1925, e também da 3ª edição, dirigida por Giovanni Aquilecchia, Firenze, G. C. Sansoni, 1958.

With typical magniloquent aplomb, Bruno delivers what can only be described as a system of Hermetic semiotics with a barrage of bizarre components ranging from Hellenistic astrology to Enochian tablets.

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. -- Back cover.

"Giordano Bruno wrote this dialogue in 1583. The Ash Wednesday Supper is concerned with two major themes: a cosmological theme concerning the new post Copernican astronomy and Bruno's infinitist reading of it; and the other a social/historical theme concerning the english society, both high and low, of which Bruno was a guest and with which he developed a complex and often conflictual relationship."--