Turning Traditions Upside Down - Rethinking Giordano Bruno's Enlightenment (Hardcover)

The contributions of some of the most eminent scholars interested in Giordano Bruno present an exhaustive overview of the state-of-the-art research on Bruno's work discussing Bruno's epistemic and literary practices, his natural philosophy, or his role as theologian and metaphysic at the cutting-edge of their disciplines. The book will also reflect aspects of Bruno's reception in the past and today, inside and outside academia.

The collection is based on a conference organized in 2008 in conjunction by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and the CentralEuropeanUniversity,Budapest.