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Dante'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 / William Franke.
- Author
- Franke, William
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- xix, 344 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 also lead 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 alternative shows up in Nicholas of Cusa's conjectural science and in Giambattista Vico's new science of imagination as alternatives to positive empirical science. In continuity with Dante's vision, they contribute to a reappropriation of self-reflection for the humanities"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 131
- Uniform Title
- Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 131.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The theological apotheosis of lyric in Dante's Paradiso -- Self-reflexion and lyricism in the Paradiso -- The Paradiso's theology of language and its lyric origins : out of the abyss -- Self-reflection on the threshold between the Middle Ages and modernity : a theological genealogy of the birthing of modernity as the age of representation -- The origin of language in reflection and the breaking of its circuits : overcoming the age of representation through repetition -- Self-reflection, speculation, and revelation : modern philosophy and the linguistic way to wisdom in western tradition -- Dante's redemption of Narcissus and the spiritual vocation of poetry as an exercise in self-reflection -- Epilogue: Reflexive stylistics in the language of Paradiso.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-4639
- ISBN
- 9780367714666
- 0367714663
- LCCN
- 2020044778
- 40030507549
- OCLC
- 1198557023
- Author
- Franke, William, author.
- Title
- Dante's Paradiso and the theological origins of modern thought : toward a speculative philosophy of self-reflection / William Franke.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 131Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 131.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781000361803
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030507549
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-4639