The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Leo Catana. The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy.

Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. x + 210 pp. index. bibl. $89.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5261-0.

Leo Catana's study on the noetic and ontological concept of contractio in the writings of Giordano Bruno is a highly erudite, specialized work of scholarship that is well conceived and constructed. He traces the sources for Bruno's understanding of how the mind ascends to knowledge of the Divine, and offers an in-depth analysis of Bruno's theory of the "heroic" mind, revealing its ...

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