Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy

Name: Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy
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ISBN: 9780195174618

ISBN-10: 0195174615

ISBN-13: 9780195174618

Edition: 2005

Authors: Christian Moevs

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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 thatgrounds 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…

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List price: $160.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.10" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction : non-duality and self-knowledge



The Empyrean



Matter



Form



Creation



Sunrises and sunsets


Conclusion : is Dante telling the truth?


Epilogue : no mind, no matter