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The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation
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The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation Hardcover - 2021

by William Franke


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In Canto XVIII of Paradiso, Dante sees thirty-five letters of Scripture - LOVE JUSTICE, YOU WHO RULE THE EARTH - 'painted' one after the other in the sky. It is an epiphany that encapsulates the Paradiso, staging its ultimate goal - the divine vision. This book offers a fresh, intensive reading of this extraordinary passage at the heart of the third canticle of the Divine Comedy. While adapting in novel ways the methods of the traditional lectura Dantis, William Franke meditates independently on the philosophical, theological, political, ethical, and aesthetic ideas that Dante's text so provocatively projects into a multiplicity of disciplinary contexts. This book demands that we question not only what Dante may have meant by his representations, but also what they mean for us today in the broad horizon of our intellectual traditions and cultural heritage.

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  • Title The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation
  • Author William Franke
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 2021-08-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781316517024 / 1316517020
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Dante Alighieri, Revelation in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021010782
  • Dewey Decimal Code 851.1

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