Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 652 g
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 652 g
Reihe: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
ISBN: 978-0-19-517461-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
The recovery of Dante's metaphysics - which are very different from our own - is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called "the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy." That problem is what to make of the Comedy's claim to the status of revelation, vision, or experiential record - as something more than imaginative literature. In this book Moevs offers the first sustained treatment of the metaphysical
picture that grounds and motivates the Comedy, and the relation between those metaphysics and Dante's poetics. Moevs arrives at the radical conclusion that Dante believed that all of what we perceive as reality, the spatio-temporal world, is in fact a creation or projection of conscious being. Armed with this new
understanding, Moevs is able to shed light on a series of perennial issues in the interpretation of the Comedy.
Zielgruppe
Students and scholars of literature and religion.
