The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Citations; Introduction; Part One Bruno's Concept of Contraction; 1. Methods Facilitating Noetic Ascent; Bruno on heroic ascent; The fifteen contractions in the Sigillus sigillorum; (i) Contraction produced by solitude; (ii) Contraction produced by restricting imagination to a place; (iii) Contraction of the horizon into the centre; (iv) Contraction producing divine dreams, visions and revelations; (v) Contraction produced by faith; (vi) Contraction produced by filial piety.
- (Vii) Contraction produced by fear(viii) Contraction of spiritus produced by fear; (ix) Contraction produced by an intensity of desire; (x) Contraction produced by restriction of number of sense organs used; (xi) Contraction produced by melancholy; (xii) Contraction produced by starvation; (xiii) Contraction producing levitation; (xiv) Contraction produced by malnutrition; (xv) Contraction practised by philosophers; Heroic practice in the fifteen contractions and its theory; The double contraction; 2. Contraction as an Ontological Concept; Bruno's discussion of ontological contraction.
- The metaphysical context of contractionThe World Soul; Matter; (i) Sources for Bruno's concept of matter; (ii) Contraction produced by matter; (iii) The cosmological role of contraction produced by matter; Coincidence of opposites; 3. Contraction and Noesis; What is contraction produced by noetic ascent?; Philosophical anthropology and contraction by noetic ascent; Abstraction and intention; (i) Abstraction through ten or twelve determinata
- (ii) Intention; Contraction in the Eroici furori; Bruno's criticism of noesis induced by melancholy: its consequences for love poetry and religion.
- 4. Contraction and MemoryInterpretations of Bruno's idea of memory; Plotinus' discussion of Aristotle's doctrine on memory; Plotinus on the twofold memory; Bruno's stance towards Aristotle's and Plotinus' theories of memory; Bruno's use of Plotinus' idea on noetic ascent through memory; Bruno's treatment of the Golden Chain; Part Two Sources of Bruno's Concept of Contraction; 5. Physiologically Induced Contraction; Ficino's notion of physiologically induced contraction; Bruno's criticism of physiologically induced contraction.
- Interpretations of Bruno's fifteen contractions in the Sigillus sigillorum6. The Scholastic Tradition of Contraction; The reception of the Liber de causis in the Renaissance; How could Bruno have been introduced to the works of Giles of Rome?; The doctrines of the Liber de causis and Bruno's philosophy; (i) Primary and secondary causes; (ii) Hypostases and the distinction between eternity and time; (iii) Substance; (iv) Higher and lower intelligences; (v) Contraction; Essence contracted into existence; (i) Pseudo-Henry; (ii) Aquinas; (iii) Giles; (iv) Pico; (v) Bruno.