The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Christian Moevs is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Nonduality and Self-knowledge

1.: The Empyrean

2.: Matter

3.: Form

4.: Creation

5.: Sunrises and Sunsets

Conclusion: Is Dante Telling the Truth?

Epilogue: No Mind, No Matter

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780195372588
ISBN-10:	0195372581
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Moevs, Christian
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Christian Moevs
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.10.2008
Gewicht:	0,494 kg