Dantologies : Theoretical and Theological Turns in Dante Studies (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture)

Franke, William

Routledge（2023/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 274 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032526553
• DDC分類 851.1

Full Description

This book comprises a searching philosophical meditation on the evolution of the humanities in recent decades, taking Dante studies as an exemplary specimen. The contemporary currents of theory have decisively impacted this field, but Dante also has a strong relationship with theology. The idea that theology, teleology, and logocentric rationalities are simply overcome and swept away by new theoretical approaches proves much more complex as the theory revolution is exposed in its crypto-theological motives and origins. The revolutionary agendas and methodologies of theoretical currents have ushered in all manner of minorities and postcolonial and gender studies. But the exciting adventure they inaugurate shows up in quite a surprising light when brought to focus through the scholarly discipline of Dante studies as a terrain of dispute between traditional philology and postmodern theory. On this terrain, negative theology can play a peculiarly destabilizing, but also a conciliatory, role: it is equally critical of all languages for a theological transcendence to which it nevertheless remains infinitely open.

Contents

Preface

Disclaimer and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theoretical and Theological Turns in Dante Studies

Setting the Scene: The Wider Critical Context

Theory and Theology: De-limitations of Context

Some Theoretical Approaches to Dante Preparing the Turn to Theology

Faith and Philosophy - Dante's Christian-Neoplatonic Synthesis

The Theological Turn - Its Discontents and Defenders

Ancient Theological versus Modern Secular Approaches to Reading Dante

Part I: Critical Encounters in Dante Studies with the Theoretical/Theological Turn




Equivocations of Comparative Metaphysics in Christian Moevs's Nondualist Comedy



A Theology of Human Encounter: Vittorio Montemaggi's Professional-Personal Testament



Professional Dantology and the Human Significance of Dante Studies: Justin Steinberg on the Limits of Law and Representability



Gregory Stone and the Universalist Aspirations of Philosophy in Dante



Giuseppe Mazzotta and Dante's Poetic Theology of Universalism

Part II: Essays in the Theoretical/Theological Criticism of Dante

6. Paul Celan, Dante's Manfred, and the Woundedness of Language as our Common Bond

7. Language and Transcendence in Dante's Paradiso

8. The Place of the Proper Name in the Topographies of the Paradiso

9. Dante and East Asian Buddhism: The Apophatic Connection and Human Rights

10. Dante's Theology and Contemporary Thought: Recovering Transcendence?

Index