{"product_id":"pandemics-and-apocalypse-in-world-literature-the-hope-for-planetary-salvation-hardcover","title":"Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation - Hardcover","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\u003e\u003cem\u003ePandemics and Apocalypse \u003c\/em\u003erereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It concerns how we are to confront future pandemics and other inextricably related crises, notably those of an ecological nature. Responses to Covid-19 typically set everything on defeating this \"enemy,\" but actually we cannot eliminate viruses without eliminating ourselves. We need to see the pandemic as revealing us to ourselves in our inherently vulnerable condition as a first step to admitting the infinite openness to one another and to our Ground--physical and metaphysical--that alone can save our world by engendering a different attitude, open and engaged, to one another and to the Earth as sources of our collective life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Franke \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. He is currently Francesco de Dombrowski Professor in Residence at the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) in Florence, Italy, and Senior Fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics. He has been Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macao, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Navarra, and Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and the Study of Religions at the University of Salzburg. His books include \u003cem\u003eOn What Cannot Be Said \u003c\/em\u003e(2007); \u003cem\u003ePoetry and Apocalypse \u003c\/em\u003e(2009); \u003cem\u003eDante and the Sense of Transgression \u003c\/em\u003e(2013); \u003cem\u003eA Philosophy of the Unsayable \u003c\/em\u003e(2014); \u003ci\u003eThe Revelation of Imagination \u003c\/i\u003e(2015); \u003ci\u003eSecular Scriptures \u003c\/i\u003e(2016); \u003ci\u003eA Theology of Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(2018); \u003ci\u003eThe Universality of What Is Not \u003c\/i\u003e(2020); \u003cem\u003eThe Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso\u003c\/em\u003e (2021); \u003cem\u003eThe Vita Nuova and the New Testament \u003c\/em\u003e(2021); \u003cem\u003eDante's Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought \u003c\/em\u003e(2021); \u003ci\u003eDantologies \u003c\/i\u003e(2024); \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote and the Quest for the Absolute in Literature \u003c\/em\u003e(2024); and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 19, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53429960474931,"sku":"9781032895857","price":126.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/lAHvdVfurJ9781032895857.webp?v=1780647177","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/pandemics-and-apocalypse-in-world-literature-the-hope-for-planetary-salvation-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}