Dante's Philosophical Life : : Politics and Human Wisdom in "Purgatorio" / / Paul Stern.
When political theorists teach the history of political philosophy, they typically skip from the ancient Greeks and Cicero to Augustine in the fifth century and Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth, and then on to the origins of modernity with Machiavelli and beyond. Paul Stern aims to change this settl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Politics, Poetry, and Philosophy in Purgatorio
- Chapter 2. “What Good Would Climbing Do?”: The Rationale and Impetus for the Pursuit of Self- Knowledge (Cantos I–IX)
- Chapter 3. “To a Better Nature You Lie Subject”: The Political Character of Humanity and Nature (Cantos X–XVII)
- Chapter 4. Disrobing the Siren: The Zealous Pursuit of Clarity (Cantos XVII–XIX)
- Chapter 5. “When Love Breathes Within Me”: The Desirability of Desire (Cantos XIX–XXVII)
- Chapter 6. “The Nest for Human Nature”: Earthly Paradise and the “Happiness in This Life” (Cantos XXVIII–XXXIII)
- Chapter 7. Dante’s Human Wisdom
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments