Dante and the Other brings together noted and emerging Dante scholars with theologians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists, bridging the Florentine’s premodern world to today’s postmodern context. Exploring how alterity has become a potent symbol in religion, philosophy, politics, and culture, this book will be of interest to many related fields. The book offers a thorough foundation in approaching Dante as proto-phenomenologist.
Key Features
- Informative review of literature
- Historical insight into Dante’s poetics-toward-ineffability as an alternative to modern scientism
- Exploration of science fiction and existential elaborations
- Phemonological analyses of Inferno’s Canto I
- Applications to psychotherapy and qualitative research
- Contains a poem from an imagined Virgil retiring in Limbo
- Meditation on Dante’s complicated relationship to homosexuality
Additional Information
Dante and the Other presents the mystical passion of apophatic spirituality, the millennia-spanning Augustinianism of radical orthodoxy, Levinas, Heidegger, and many others—all driven by Dante’s Labors of Love. It is essential reading for Dante scholars, as well as readers interested in his works.
