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Dante's Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection

by William Franke

  • Paperback
  • 344 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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For scholars and students of literature and faith

Explains how Dante’s vision shapes modern thought

You will see the link between poetry and theology

This insightful work explores how Dante’s poetry anticipated the birth of the modern self through a deeply theological lens.

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Self-reflection, as the hallmark of the modern age, originates more profoundly with Dante than with Descartes. This book rewrites modern intellectual history, taking Dante's lyrical language in Paradiso as enacting a Trinitarian self-reflexivity that gives a theological spin to the birth of the modern subject already with the Troubadours. The ever more intense self-reflexivity that has led to our contemporary secular world and its technological apocalypse can lead also to the poetic vision of other worlds such as those experienced by Dante. Facing the same nominalist crisis as Duns Scotus, his exact contemporary and the precursor of scientific method, Dante's thought and work indicate an alternative modernity along the path not taken. This other way shows up in Nicholas of Cusa's conjectural science and in Giambattista Vico's new science of imagination as alternatives to the exclusive reign of positive empirical science. In continuity with Dante's vision, they contribute to a reappropriation of self-reflection for the humanities.
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On the Universality of What Is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical ThinkingDante's Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection

  • Title

    Dante's Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection

  • Author

    William Franke

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    January 2023

  • Weight

    818g

  • Page Count

    344

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780367740344

  • ISBN-10

    0367740346

  • Eden Code

    6118000