{"product_id":"dantologies-theoretical-and-theological-turns-in-dante-studies-paperback","title":"Dantologies: Theoretical and Theological Turns in Dante Studies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Franke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003enegative\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Franke\u003c\/strong\u003e is a philosopher of the humanities, a Dante scholar, and a professor of comparative literature at Vanderbilt University. He has also been professor of philosophy at the University of Macao (2013-16), Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology at the University of Salzburg (2005-06), and Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung research fellow at Potsdam University (1994-95). In 2021, he became Honorary Professor (\u003ci\u003eProfessor Honoris Causa\u003c\/i\u003e) of the \u003ci\u003eAgora Hermeneutica\u003c\/i\u003e. Franke's apophatic philosophy is conceived and expounded in \u003ci\u003eOn What Cannot Be Said\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eA Philosophy of the Unsayable \u003c\/i\u003e(2014). It is extended into a comparative philosophy of culture in \u003ci\u003eApophatic Paths from Europe to China \u003c\/i\u003e(2018) and applied to address current controversies in education and society ranging from identity politics to cognitive science and media studies in \u003ci\u003eOn the Universality of What Is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). As a philosopher of the humanities with a negative theological vision, Franke elaborates a theological poetics in books including \u003ci\u003eDante's Interpretive Journey\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003ePoetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eDante and the Sense of Transgression: \"The Transgression of the Sign\"\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). He traces the ramifications of Dante's theological poetics forward in modern poetry (\u003ci\u003eSecular Scriptures: Theological Poetics and the Challenge of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, 2016) and backward toward Dante's own sources (\u003ci\u003eThe Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante\u003c\/i\u003e, 2015). His book \u003ci\u003eDante's Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) received the Hermes Award: Book of the Year in Phenomenological Hermeneutics from The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH). It is cited along with Franke's two other speculative monographs revolving around Dante published in the same year: \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Vision of Dante's \u003c\/i\u003eParadiso\u003ci\u003e: The Metaphysics of Representation\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and \u003ci\u003eDante's \u003c\/i\u003eVita Nuova\u003ci\u003e and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 274\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52966658277683,"sku":"9781032526560","price":99.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Z0WKktt0Ks9781032526560.webp?v=1768640007","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/dantologies-theoretical-and-theological-turns-in-dante-studies-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}