Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought

Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection

By:

William Franke

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

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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.

Author Biography:

William Franke is a philosopher of the humanities, a Dante scholar, and professor of comparative literature and religion at Vanderbilt University. He has also been professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Macao (2013–16); Fulbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and the Study of Religion (2006–07); and Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung research fellow at the University of Potsdam (1994–95).

Release date Australia

March 25th, 2021

Author

William Franke

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

344

Series

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

ISBN-13

9780367714666

Product ID

34025360

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