Metaphysical Terms (Translated): Fifty-two terms of metaphysics, and their descent to God

This edition includes:
• New English translation
• Critical introduction

Fifty-two words, each given its full weight, and behind them a quiet reordering of what it means for anything to exist at all. Giordano Bruno spent his life lecturing across Europe — Geneva, Paris, Oxford, Wittenberg, Zurich — and in this book he does something rare: he takes the technical vocabulary of metaphysics and shows, entry by entry, what those old words can be made to say.

The subject is the vocabulary itself. Bei...