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This book provides an introduction to topological groups and the
structure theory of locally compact abelian groups, with a special
emphasis on Pontryagin-van Kampen duality, including a completely
self-contained elementary proof of the duality theorem. Further
related topics and applications are treated in separate chapters
and in the appendix.
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Giordano Bruno
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Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno
(1548–1600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and
burned at the stake, has long been an enigma of early modern
European philosophy. His central 1586 work On the Heroic Frenzies
has shown a particular need for a fresh examination. This vibrant
bilingual edition, annotated by celebrated Bruno scholar Ingrid D.
Rowland, features the text in its original Italian alongside an
elegant, accurate English translation. On the Heroic Frenzies is at
once a philosophical dialogue, an anthology of love poetry, and a
collection of sonnets, songs, and emblems – sometimes borrowed
from other writers, but primarily Bruno’s own. Rowland’s
detailed introduction and extensive footnotes highlight the
philosophical sources, Biblical allusions, and biographical
elements that make Bruno’s work both richly conceived and often
challenging to understand. Providing cohesive insights into
Bruno’s text, Rowland’s edition of On the Heroic Frenzies is a
helpful guide for those new to his work.
Giordano Bruno’s Cabala del cavallo pegaseo (The Cabala of
Pegasus) grew out of the great Italian philosopher’s experiences
lecturing and debating at Oxford in early 1584. Having received a
cold reception there because of his viewpoints, Bruno went on in
the Cabala to attack the narrow-mindedness of the university--and
by extension, all universities that resisted his advocacy of
intellectual freethinking. The Cabala of Pegasus consists of
vernacular dialogues that turn on the identification of the noble
Pegasus (the spirit of poetry) and the humble ass (the vehicle of
divine revelation). In the interplay of these ideas, Bruno explores
the nature of poetry, divine authority, secular learning, and
Pythagorean metempsychosis, which had great influence on James
Joyce and many other writers and artists from the Renaissance to
the modern period. This book, the first English translation of The
Cabala of Pegasus, contains both the English and Italian versions
as well as helpful annotations. It will have particular appeal to
all Renaissance scholars and those interested in the Renaissance
cabalistic underpinnings of modern literature.
Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six
philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in
London between 1584 and 1585. It presents a revolutionary cosmology
founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to
infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary
systems. As well as opening up the traditional closed universe and
reducing earth to a tiny speck in an overwhelmingly immense cosmos,
Bruno offers a lively description of his clash of opinions with the
conservative academics and theologians he argued with in Oxford and
London. This volume, containing what has recently been claimed as
the final version of Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper, presents a new
translation based on a newly edited text, with critical comment
that takes account of the most current discussion of the textual,
historical, cosmological and philosophical issues raised in this
dialogue. It considers Bruno's work as a seminal text of the late
European renaissance.
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