Une philosophie bondage ? Politique du lien chez Giordano Bruno

In this article, I would like to focus on the power and originality of the relationship thinking developed by Giordano Bruno. In order to do so, I will focus on the small treatise "De Vinculis" that he explicitly devotes to this issue. First of all, I will show how original this treatise is by its frontal treatment of the question of the relation - we will then have to wait for the work of Gilbert Simondon to find such a way of ensuring an ontological content to the relation. Next, I will resituate the main contributions of this text in the whole of Bruno's philosophy of nature, indicating that they are very often the most accomplished and synthetic expression of it. Finally, I will follow Bruno's own suggestions (especially on the notion of "philautia") to draw from this philosophy of relationship practical, political and ethical consequences, which will very naturally inscribe Bruno in a materialist tradition ranging from Machiavelli to Spinoza, and even to certain readings of Marx.