Cacciari / Carrera Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Political

Essays on Dante
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8690-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Nine masterful essays on Dante’s Divine Comedy and his political theology by one of today’s leading Italian philosophers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cacciari, Massimo

Carrera, Alessandro

Weitere Mitwirkende

Carrera, Alessandro

Mobili, Giorgio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Nostalgia for the Empire, or Dante's Metapolitics
Alessandro Carrera

1. Double Portrait: Saint Francis of Assisi in Dante and Giotto

2. The "Sin" of Ulysses

3. Dante's Divine Perception (Aesthesis Theia)

4. The Concrete Ineffable: The Last Cantos of the Commedia

5. Dante's Intellectual Love

6. Latin and Vernacular in the De vulgari eloquentia

7. On Dante's Political Theology

8. A Brief Note on the German Reception of Dante

9. Schelling's Dante

Notes
Chapter Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Massimo Cacciari is an Italian philosopher, politician, and public intellectual. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Italy. His many books include The Withholding Power: An Essay on Political Theology (translated by Edi Pucci). Alessandro Carrera is Professor of Italian Studies and World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston. His many books include Fellini's Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini. Giorgio Mobili is a poet and translator and teaches Italian and Spanish at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of Irritable Bodies and Postmodern Subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi.