Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation : : Passages to Freedom in ‹em›The Divine Comedy‹/em› / / Christine O'Connell Baur.

Widely considered one of the greatest works produced in Europe during the Middle Ages, Dante's La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) has influenced countless generations of readers, yet surprisingly few books have attempted to explain the philosophical relevance of this great epic. Dante'...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Situating the Project
  • DIVISION ONE
  • 1. Language, Mediation, and Salvation in Dante's Commedia
  • 2. Meaning
  • 3. Historicality and Truth
  • 4. The Recapitulatory Nature of Finite Understanding
  • 5. The Hermeneutics of Conversion
  • DIVISION TWO
  • 6. Dialectical Reading and the Dialectic of Salvation
  • 7. Paradisal Hermeneutics: Reading the Volume of the Universe
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index