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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Preface -- List of figures -- Notes on the text -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Mnemonics and theories of the memory -- 1. Definition of the field of research (1): Mnemonics and memory theories -- 2. Definition of the field of research (2): Selection of the sources for the history of mnemonics -- 2.1 Latin sources for mnemonics -- 2.1.1 Rhetorica ad Herennium -- 2.1.2 Cicero, De oratore -- 2.1.3 Quintilian, Institutio oratoria -- 2.2 Greek philosophical sources for mnemonics: Aristotle's doctrine of the soul -- 2.3 Mediaeval sources for mnemonics (1): Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas -- 2.4 Mediaeval sources for mnemonics (2): Augustine and Ramon Llull -- 3. Definition of the field of research (3): Mnemonics in the sixteenth century -- Chapter 2: Studying Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae from a metaphorological perspective -- 1. Definition of the research objective (1): Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae -- 2. Definition of the research object (2): Analysis of three methodological approaches -- 2.1 Paolo Rossi: "Landing on the continent of memory" -- 2.2 Frances A. Yates: Mnemonics and the Hermetic tradition -- 2.3 Mary Carruthers: Creative thinking in mediaeval memory systems -- 3. Definition of the research objective (3): The metaphor of inner writing in Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae -- Chapter 3: Hans Blumenberg as an interpreter of the Modern Age: A critique of the historical category of secularization -- 1. The twofold centrality of Die Legitimität der Neuzeit -- 2. Critique of the historical-interpretative category of secularization (Säkularisierung) -- 2.1 The legitimization of a historical period -- 2.2 Against the underlying theologism of the secularization category (1): On the use of the secularization concept.

2.3 Against the underlying theologism of the secularization category (2): A functionalistic vision of the concepts or of the good use of analogies -- 3. The formation of the Modern Age -- 3.1 The thesis: The Modern Age as a second overcoming of Gnosis -- 3.2 The ˋepochal threshold' (Epochenschwelle) -- 3.3 The origin of evil in the world -- 3.4 ˋSelf-assertion' (Selbstbehauptung) and the first of the two key comparative analyses -- Chapter 4: From metaphorology as an auxiliary discipline of the history of philosophy to metaphorology as a discipline of attention -- 1. Metaphorology as an auxiliary discipline of the history of philosophy -- 1.1 Metaphor, concept, and history -- 1.2 The Kantian origins of the problem of the absolute metaphor -- 1.3 Absolute metaphors have history (beyond the Kantian historical apriorism) -- 2. Historical reconstruction of philosophical theories of the metaphor, with reference to Hans Blumenberg's metaphor theory -- 2.1 Aristotle: Definition of the research space -- 2.2 A history of the reception of Poetics and Rhetoric -- 2.3 The twentieth century: "The age of metaphoromania" -- 2.4 Hans Blumenberg and the revival of the Aristotelian discussion framework -- 3. Metaphorology as a discipline of attention -- 3.1 Stimulus-reaction or stimulus-dilation -- 3.2 The rise of philosophy from ˋpensiveness' (Nachdenklichkeit) -- 3.3 A phenomenological-anthropological reply to Kant -- Chapter 5: On Blumenberg's interpretation of Giordano Bruno -- 1. Giordano Bruno, philosopher of Copernicanism -- 1.1 The second of two comparative model analyses: Nicholas of Cusa and Giordano Bruno -- 2. The metaphor of the world as a book -- 2.1 Ernst R. Curtius, Erich Rothacker, Hans Blumenberg: Three approaches to the study of the metaphor of the book.

2.2 The absolute metaphor of the world as a book: A metaphor for the experimentability of everything -- 3. A critique of Blumenberg's interpretation of Bruno -- 4. Metaphors for memory and mnemonics -- 4.1 Metaphors for natural memory -- 4.2 Metaphors for artificial memory -- 5. The metaphor of inner writing as an absolute metaphor -- Chapter 6: "Ad internam scripturam, et non vulgares per memoriam operationes explicates" -- 1. Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae (1): Consistency, novelty, and excess as regards the tradition of the mnemonic arts -- 2. Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae (2): Consistency and novelty as regards the tradition of the mnemonic arts -- 2.1 The subiecta -- 2.2 The adiecta or formae -- 2.3 The organum -- 2.4 A technique of inner writing for images: The metaphor of inner writing as a leading paradigm of conceptual formulation -- 3. Giordano Bruno's ars memoriae (3): An excess in the wake of the tradition of the mnemonic arts -- 3.1 Criticism of ars memoriae -- 3.2 A unique ars: Metaphor of the shadow and metaphor of inner writing -- Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Figures.