Ksenija i Bruno (o preplitanju životnih puteva i filozofije Ksenije Atanasijević i Đordana Bruna)
KSENIJA AND BRUNO (ON INTERTWINING THE LIFE PATHS AND PHILOSOPHIES OF KSENIJA ATANASIJEVIĆ AND GIORDANO BRUNO)

Author(s): Nada Sekulić
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Ksenija Atanasijević; Giordano Bruno; Renaissance; cosmos; discrete space
Summary/Abstract: Ksenija Atanasijević’s PhD thesis on Giordano Bruno’s metaphysical doctrine represents one of the most significant contributions to understanding Bruno’s philosophy, as well as the Renaissance spirit in general. Inspired by ancient philosophy, especially by the Hellenistic atomists Democritus and Epicurus, and Copernican Revolution, Bruno developed his own concept of an infinite cosmos in which the center is at every point and the edge is nowhere to be found, containing infinitely many worlds composed of indivisible parts, minims, all explained in the categories of his qualitative approach to mathematics. Comparing his teaching to the teachings of his contemporaries, interpreting him as an anticipator of the discoveries of Galileo, Kepler, Huygens, and Herschel, as well as the philosophies of Leibniz and Spinoza, and also Branislav Petronijević, while pointing to the implications that associates his teaching with the modern understanding of atoms and the findings of Becquerel , the Curies, Bohr and Heisenberg, Ksenija Atanasijević provided an extremely original synthesis and interpretation of the origins and trajectory of the influence of Bruno’s philosophy, presenting it at the same time as a victory of free mind over dogma. Usually, Branislav Petronijević is referred to as Ksenija’s mentor and teacher. However, her fate, life and work show that her real life teacher was Giordano Bruno.

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