Dante And Derrida

Author : Francis J. Ambrosio
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791480410

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Dante and Derrida by Francis J. Ambrosio Pdf

Reading Dante's Commedia alongside Jacques Derrida's later religious writings, Francis J. Ambrosio explores what these works reveal about religion as a fundamental dynamic of human existence, about freedom and responsibility, and about the significance of writing itself. Ambrosio argues that both the many telling differences between them and the powerful bonds that unite them across centuries show that Dante and Derrida share an identity as religious writers that arises from the human experiences of faith, hope, and love in response to the divine mystery of being human. For both Dante and Derrida, Ambrosio contends, "scriptural religion" reveals that the paradoxical tension of freedom and absolute responsibility must lead to the mystery of forgiveness, a secret that these two share and faithfully keep by surrendering to its necessity to die so as always to begin again anew.

Author : Hugh Mercer Curtler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 088946300X

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The Inversion of Consciousness from Dante to Derrida by Hugh Mercer Curtler Pdf

Author : William Franke
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441150288

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Dante and the Sense of Transgression by William Franke Pdf

In Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante's poetic vision. Conversely, Dante's medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory. Beyond suggestive archetypes like Adam and Ulysses that hint at an obsession with transgression beneath Dante's overt suppression of it, there is another and a prior sense in which transgression emerges as Dante's essential and ultimate gesture. His work as a poet culminates in the Paradiso in a transcendence of language towards a purely ineffable, mystical experience beyond verbal expression. Yet Dante conveys this experience, nevertheless, in and through language and specifically through the transgression of language, violating its normally representational and referential functions. Paradiso's dramatic sky-scapes and unparalleled textual performances stage a deconstruction of the sign that is analyzed philosophically in the light of Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida, Barthes, and Bataille, as transgressing and transfiguring the very sense of sense.

Author : William Franke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000937510

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Dantologies by William Franke Pdf

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.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226143064

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The Gift of Death by Jacques Derrida Pdf

In The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he continues to explore questions introduced in Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Patocka's Heretical Essays on the History of Philosophy and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Levinas, and Kierkegaard. A major work, The Gift of Death resonates with much of Derrida's earlier writing and will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, philosophy, and literary criticism, along with scholars of ethics and religion. "The Gift of Death is Derrida's long-awaited deconstruction of the foundations of the project of a philosophical ethics, and it will long be regarded as one of the most significant of his many writings."—Choice "An important contribution to the critical study of ethics that commends itself to philosophers, social scientists, scholars of relgion . . . [and those] made curious by the controversy that so often attends Derrida."—Booklist "Derrida stares death in the face in this dense but rewarding inquiry. . . . Provocative."—Publishers Weekly

Author : Richard J. Lane
Publisher : Akademiai Kiado
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9630579472

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Functions of the Derrida Archive by Richard J. Lane Pdf

This dissertation examines the early philosophical receptions to the work of Jacques Derrida, structuring the receptions in the form of an archive. The monograph is composed of three main sections: The Non-Locus of the Archive, The Derrida Archive, and Conclusion: The Margins of Philosophy. The Non-Locus of the Archive examines three ways of conceptualizing the archive: the archaeological or Foucauldian concept as a reaction to the traditional history of ideas, the traditional archive model Foucault attempts to replace, and a deconstructive model which is the first stage in critiquing this traditional/archaeological binary opposition. The Functions of the Derrida Archive are briefly introduced, and the whole issue of the philosophical receptions is related to Derrida's comments on "Colleges and Philosophy" and the essay "The Principle of Reason." The Derrida Archive is divided into Critical and Supporting Receptions. This is an analysis of the Functions that the monograph finds working

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004341616

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In the Name of Friendship: Deguy, Derrida and Salut by Anonim Pdf

In the Name of Friendship: Deguy, Derrida and "Salut" explores the friendship between poetry and philosophy in the works of Michel Deguy and Jacques Derrida, and the cultural, political and religious implications of the name understood as a secular form of sacredness.

Author : Antonella Braida,Luisa Calè
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351946308

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Dante on View by Antonella Braida,Luisa Calè Pdf

Dante on View opens an important new dimension in Dante studies: for the first time a collection of essays analyses the presence of the Italian Medieval poet Dante Alighieri in the visual and performing arts from the Middle Ages to the present day. The essays in this volume explore the image of Dante emerging in medieval illuminated manuscripts and later ideological and nostalgic uses of the poet. The volume also demonstrates the rich diversity of projects inspired by the Commedia both as an overall polysemic structure and as a repository of scenes, which generate a repertoire for painters, actors and film-makers. In its original multimediality, Dante's Commedia stimulates the performance of readers and artists working in different media from manuscript to stage, from ballet to hyperinstruments, from film to television. Through such a variety of media, the reception of Dante in the visual and performing arts enriches our understanding of the poet and of the arts represented at key moments of formal and structural change in the European cultural world.

Author : Jennifer Rushworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192508294

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Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust by Jennifer Rushworth Pdf

This book brings together, in a novel and exciting combination, three authors who have written movingly about mourning: two medieval Italian poets, Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, and one early twentieth-century French novelist, Marcel Proust. Each of these authors, through their respective narratives of bereavement, grapples with the challenge of how to write adequately about the deeply personal and painful experience of grief. In Jennifer Rushworth's analysis, discourses of mourning emerge as caught between the twin, conflicting demands of a comforting, readable, shared generality and a silent, solitary respect for the uniqueness of any and every experience of loss. Rushworth explores a variety of major questions in the book, including: what type of language is appropriate to mourning? What effect does mourning have on language? Why and how has the Orpheus myth been so influential on discourses of mourning across different time periods and languages? Might the form of mourning described in a text and the form of closure achieved by that same text be mutually formative and sustaining? In this way, discussion of the literary representation of mourning extends to embrace topics such as the medieval sin of acedia, the proper name, memory, literary epiphanies, the image of the book, and the concept of writing as promise. In addition to the three primary authors, Rushworth draws extensively on the writings of Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Roland Barthes. These rich and diverse psychoanalytical and French theoretical traditions provide terminological nuance and frameworks for comparison, particularly in relation to the complex term melancholia.

Author : William Franke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000361803

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Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought by William Franke Pdf

Self-reflection, as the hallmark of the modern age, originates more profoundly with Dante than with Descartes. This book rewrites modern intellectual history, taking Dante’s lyrical language in Paradiso as enacting a Trinitarian self-reflexivity that gives a theological spin to the birth of the modern subject already with the Troubadours. The ever more intense self-reflexivity that has led to our contemporary secular world and its technological apocalypse can lead also to the poetic vision of other worlds such as those experienced by Dante. Facing the same nominalist crisis as Duns Scotus, his exact contemporary and the precursor of scientific method, Dante’s thought and work indicate an alternative modernity along the path not taken. This other way shows up in Nicholas of Cusa’s conjectural science and in Giambattista Vico’s new science of imagination as alternatives to the exclusive reign of positive empirical science. In continuity with Dante’s vision, they contribute to a reappropriation of self-reflection for the humanities.

Author : William Franke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226259978

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Dante's Interpretive Journey by William Franke Pdf

Franke reads the Divine Comedy through the insights into interpretation developed by hermeneutics, and at the same time uses Dante's poem, with its interpretive praxis based on a theological vision, to challenge prevailing assumptions about interpretation today. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401734318

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The Poetry of Life in Literature by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Poetry of life in literature and through literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself - where they interact and influence each other, is the nerve of human existence. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are profoundly dissatisfied with the stark reality of life's swift progress onward, and the enigmatic and irretrievable meaning of the past. And so we dramatise our existence, probing deeply for a lyrical and heartfelt yet universally valid sense of our experience. It is in great works of literature that we seek those hidden springs that so move us. It is in honour of this search that this collection focuses on the creative imagination at work in literature and aesthetics.

Author : Andrew J. Mitchell,Sam Slote
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438446394

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Derrida and Joyce by Andrew J. Mitchell,Sam Slote Pdf

All of Derrida’s texts on Joyce together under one cover in fresh, new translations, along with key essays covering the range of Derrida’s engagement with Joyce’s works. Bringing together all of Jacques Derrida’s writings on James Joyce, this volume includes the first complete translation of his book Ulysses Gramophone: Two Words for Joyce as well as the first translation of the essay “The Night Watch.” In Ulysses Gramophone, Derrida provides some of his most thorough reflections on affirmation and the “yes,” the signature, and the role of technological mediation in all of these areas. In “The Night Watch,” Derrida pursues his ruminations on writing in an explicitly feminist direction, offering profound observations on the connection between writing and matricide. Accompanying these texts are nine essays by leading scholars from across the humanities addressing Derrida’s treatments of Joyce throughout his work, and two remembrances of lectures devoted to Joyce that Derrida gave in 1982 and 1984. The volume concludes with photographs of Derrida from these two events.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401714259

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Enjoyment by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Philosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while the tragic seems to be regarded with greater seriousness. Why this favouring of sadness over joy? Can it be justified? What are the criteria by which the significance of comedy can be estimated vis à vis tragedy? Questions such as these underlie the present selection of studies, which casts new light on the comic, the joyful and laughter itself. This challenge to the popular attitude strikes into new territory, relating such matters to the profundity with which we enjoy life and its role in the deployment of the Human Condition. In her Introduction Tymieniecka points out that the tragic and the comic might be complementary in their respective sense-bestowing modes as well as in their dynamic functions; they might both share in the primogenital function of promoting the self-individualising progress of human existence. For the first time in philosophy, laughter, mirth, joy and the like are revealed as the modalities of the essential enjoyment of life, being brought to bear in an illumination of the human condition.

Author : Elizabeth Edwards,Stephen Boos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN : NWU:35556038864856

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Derrida by Elizabeth Edwards,Stephen Boos Pdf