scholarly journals Laetitia Rimpau, Visionen neuer Wissenschaft. Zur dialogischen Dichtung von Dante Alighieri und Johannes Kepler, 2021

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Johannes Kepler

Dante Alighieri

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Bartoloni
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
The Political ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The Aesthetic

The Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is invoked several times in the work of Giorgio Agamben, often in passing to stress a point, as when discussing the political relevance of désoeuvrement (KG 246); to develop a thought, as in the articulation of the medieval idea of imagination as the medium between body and soul (S, especially 127–9); or to explain an idea, as in the case of the artistic process understood as the meeting of contradictory forces such as inspiration and critical control (FR, especially 48–50). So while Agamben does not engage with Dante systematically, he refers to him constantly, treating the Florentine poet as an auctoritas whose presence adds critical rigour and credibility. Identifying and relating the instances of these encounters is useful since they highlight central aspects of Agamben’s thought and its development over the years, from the first writings, such as Stanzas, to more recent texts, such as Il fuoco e il racconto and The Use of Bodies. The significance of Agamben’s reliance on Dante can be divided into two categories: the aesthetic and the political. The following discussion will address each of these categories separately, but will also emphasise the philosophical continuity that links the discussion of the aesthetic with that of the political. While in the first instance Dante is offered as an example of poetic innovation, especially in relation to the use of language and imagination, in the second he is invoked as a forerunner of new forms of life. Mediality and potentiality are the two pivots connecting the aesthetic and the political.

Johannes Kepler: from the mystery to the harmony

1973 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulii A. Danilov ◽  
Ya.A. Smorodinskii
Keyword(s):  
Johannes Kepler

Cosmological and Philosophical World of Dante Alighieri

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Grzybowski
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri

Santo, Doutor e Reformador? As várias faces de Pedro Damiano na historiografia oitocentista

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Cláudia Regina Bovo
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Giovanni Boccaccio

Considerado entre eclesiásticos e historiadores como uma das figuras mais eminentes do século XI, Pedro Damiano (1007-1072) tem sua biografia descrita e analisada há pelo menos nove séculos. Muito dos feitos e características atribuídos a sua pessoa foram fruto de construções historiográficas de diversos períodos, cuja obra hagiográfica de João de Lodi (Vitam Petri Damiani de aproximadamente 1077-1081)  é a precursora. Dentre os autores de grande vulto que fizeram referência às façanhas deste eremita, podemos destacar os humanistas Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio e Petrarca. Além deles, historiadores eclesiásticos e laicos do século XIX anunciaram Pedro Damiano como autoridade espiritual e referência doutrinal no cenário político da Igreja Romana. Não foi por acaso que em 1828, o papa Leão XII concedeu a Pedro Damiano o título de Doutor da Igreja, reconhecendo seus numerosos escritos como textos fundamentais da doutrina cristã. Sendo assim, a partir da obra do cardeal Alfonso Capecelatro – Storia Di S. Pier Damiano e del suo Tempo – pretendemos analisar como a trajetória eclesiástica de Pedro Damiano é construída no fim do século XIX e o quanto ela responde à imperativos sócio-políticos do período. Além disso, verificaremos o quanto essa construção historiográfica se aproxima ou se distancia da imagem imaculada, contemplativa e, sobretudo, santificada erigida pelo seu texto hagiográfico fundador.

The Curious Eye

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Webster
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Human Vision ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
Robert Boyle ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Johannes Kepler ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Moment

The Curious Eye explores early modern debates over two related questions: what are the limits of human vision, and to what extent can these limits be overcome by technological enhancement? Today, in our everyday lives we rely on optical technology to provide us with information about visually remote spaces even as we question the efficacy and ethics of such pursuits. But the debates surrounding the subject of technologically mediated vision have their roots in a much older literary tradition in which the ability to see beyond the limits of natural human vision is associated with philosophical and spiritual insight as well as social and political control. The Curious Eye provides insight into the subject of optically mediated vision by returning to the literature of the seventeenth century, the historical moment in which human visual capacity in the West was first extended through the application of optical technologies to the eye. Bringing imaginative literary works by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn together with optical and philosophical treatises by Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, The Curious Eye explores the social and intellectual impact of the new optical technologies of the seventeenth century on its literature. At the same time, it demonstrates that social, political, and literary concerns are not peripheral to the optical science of the period but rather an integral part of it, the legacy of which we continue to experience.

Communes, Signori, and Empire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Lee
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Civil Strife ◽  
Imperial Authority ◽  
Imperial Governance

In the sixth canto of the Purgatorio, Dante Alighieri lamented the pitiable condition of Italy. Though once the donna di provincie, it was now the ‘dwelling place of sorrow’. Bereft of peace, its cities were wracked by constant strife. Attributing this to the absence of imperial governance, he called on Albert of Habsburg to right Italy’s woes with all haste. As this chapter shows, the earliest humanists embraced the imperial cause for much the same reasons. Although aware of the condition of the regnum Italicum, they were concerned primarily with the affairs of individual cities, and used their classical learning to rationalize the character of urban life. Worn down by civil strife, they too called upon kings and emperors to restore their peace and liberty. But while some associated the Empire with signorial government, the most striking and persistent appeals to imperial authority came from humanists living under communal regimes.

The Starry Universe of Jacques Cassini: Century-old Echoes of Kepler

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-167
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Graney
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Johannes Kepler ◽  
Apparent Diameter ◽  
Early 18Th Century ◽  
Made In

This paper discusses measurements of the apparent diameter and parallax of the star Sirius, made in the early 18th century by Jacques Cassini, and how those measurements were discussed by other writers. Of particular interest is how other writers accepted Cassini’s measurements, but then discussed Sirius and other stars as though they were all the same size as the sun. Cassini’s measurements, by contrast, required Sirius and other stars to dwarf the sun—something Cassini explicitly noted, and something that echoed the ideas of Johannes Kepler more than a century earlier.

Johannes Kepler in Ulm Revisited: New Aspects of Old Known Facts—

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Joachim Albinus ◽  
Detlef Suckrau
Keyword(s):  
Johannes Kepler
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