Under the Sign of the "Demogorgon": Immanence and Relation in Giordano Bruno's "Lampas triginta statuarum"
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Relation, Ontology, Immanence, Memory, Infinity.Abstract
Our research investigates the possibilities of establishing an ontological-relational reading of Giordano Bruno's work, based on "The Lamp of the Thirty Statues" (Lampas triginta statuarum). The particularity of this work, written in Wittenberg in 1587, resides in the exhibition of the ontological production of the modalities that arise from the relationship between the infinite and the finite by means of statues or figurative representations. Our hypothesis consists in exposing the ontological-relational matrix of Brunian thought and the expressive richness of the modalities that are reflected from the concept of relationship and its figurative representation under the figure of the Demogorgon. Indeed, we consider that it is a feasible interpretation key to understand the complexity of the links between transcendence and immanence in Bruno's philosophical thought. To do this, we will first analyze the concepts that make up the triad Soul of the World, Spirit and Intellect First, as set out in Lampas triginta statuarum. Then we expose the relational framework of these concepts with the aim of emphasizing the fundamental aspects of immanence in Bruno's work. Finally, we address the notion of relationship as a category that allows unifying the different aspects of immanence in Brunian cosmology from the mythological figure of the Demogorgon.
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