Dante and the Other: A Phenomenology of Love

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Dante and Phenomenology
	Chapter 1 Introduction: Dante and Phenomenology: A Review of Literature
		An Overview of Dante’s Two Major Poetic Works
			Vita Nuova
			Commedia
		Three Saints
			Thomas Aquinas
			Francis of Assisi
			Augustine of Hippo
		(Proto)Phenomenology
			Phenomenology as a Critical Discourse
			Phenomenology as a Qualitative Method
			Phenomenology in Clinical Settings
			Phenomenological Theology
			Dante’s Premodern Position Relative to Phenomenology
			The Historical Origins of the Problems Phenomenology Seeks to Address
			A Return to Dante’s Privileged Perspective
			Dante’s Poetics as Phenomenology
		Dante, Humanism, and the Renaissance
		The Major Texts
			Harrison’s The Body of Beatrice
			Critical Responses to Harrison
			Took’s Dante’s Phenomenology of Being
			Asay’s The Phenomenology of Frames in Chaucer, Dante and Boccaccio
			The Contributions of Franke
		Franke’s Dante’s Interpretive Journey (1996)
			Franke’s “Dante’s ‘New Life’ and the New Testament: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Revelation” (2011)
			Franke’s “Dante Studies After the Theological Turn” (2018)
			Ultraphenomenology: Levinas, the Other, and Franke
			Conclusion to Franke’s Contributions
		Articles Linking Dante and Phenomenology
			Nolan’s “The Vita Nuova and Richard of St. Victor’s Phenomenology of Vision” (1974)
		Shoaf’s “Medieval Studies After Derrida After Heidegger” (1989)
			Scarry’s “On Vivacity: The Difference Between Daydreaming and Imagining-Under-Authorial-Instruction” (1995)
		Ardissimo and Scarini’s “Fenomenologia Do Maravilhoso Na Literatura Italiana” (2011)
			Shores’s “Body and World in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze” (2012)
			Monticelli’s “Fear in Dante’s Inferno: Phenomenology, Semiotics, Aesthetics” (2015)
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 2 Representing the Other1: Dante, Duns Scotus, and the Crisis of Representation in the Modern Age
		Phenomenological Reduction and the Univocity of Being
		The Epistemological Turn in the Formal Understanding of Being
		Signification of the Real and an Autonomous Sphere for Representation
		Objective Representation: Beyond Naming and Desiring the Divine
		The Good as Sought Through Will Without Intellect—Subjectivity
		Conceptual Production of ‘Objective’ Being—The Way of Representation
		The Paradigm of Representation and Dante’s Alternative Version
		From Logical (Dis)Analogy to Imaginative Conjecture Versus the Forgetting of Being
		Note
		References
	Chapter 3 1321: A Space Odyssey: A Response to Franke
		References
	Chapter 4 Dante, Selfhood and Significant Journeying
		A Basic Anthropology: Dante, Self, and Selfhood
		Structures of Consciousness and the Love-Imperative
		A Phenomenology of Being
		Dante and Significant Journeying
		Reference
	Chapter 5 A Response to Took’s “Dante, Selfhood, and Significant Journeying”
	Chapter 6 From Poetics to Phenomenology: Consciousness in Dante’s Divine Comedy
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7 Gateways to the Ineffable: Dante’s Poetry as Proto-Phenomenology
		Radical Orthodoxy
		Heidegger, Poetry, Philosophy, and Science
		Alchemy, Jung, Romanyshyn, and Dante
			Jung’s Choice of Alchemy
			Dante Predates Alchemy
			Pre- and Peri-Modernity
			Romanyshyn and Frankenstein’s Monster
			Dante’s Alchemy
		The Rhythm of Gates
			The Gates of Hell
			The Gates of Dis
		The Gates of Purgatory
			Ante-Purgatory
			The Three Steps
			Dante Takes on the Responsibility for the Process and, Thus, Avoids the Seduction of Mere Allegory
		A Provisional Conclusion
		References
Part II Dante: Yesterday, Today, and Forever
	Chapter 8 When Bici Said Come
	Chapter 9 Dante and the Medieval ‘Other’1
		Note
		References
	Chapter 10 Surprised by Grace: Hermeneutic Reflections on Dante’s Judgments: A Response to Hawkins
		References
	Chapter 11 Purgatorio: A Liturgy of Forgiveness and Restoration
		Liturgy: A School of Community
		The Purgatorian Liturgy: Verbal Scripts and Symbolic Actions
		The Purgatorian Liturgy: Music and the Common Life
		The Liturgy of Psalm 113: Exodus and Liberation
		Prayer and Forgiveness
		Dantean Forgiveness and Modern Accounts of Forgiveness: Kristeva, Arendt, Jankélévitch, and Guardini
		The Serious Playfulness of Purgatorio
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12 Storytelling: Dante, Freud, and their Models of Eros
		Note
		References
	Chapter 13 Purgatory as a Metaphor for Therapy and Associated Ethical Implications
		Therapy as Purgatory
			Therapy as Liminal
			Processing as Purgation
			Guide or Companion
		Therapy with the Dead
			The Dead in the Commedia and Roman Catholicism
			Within Psychology
			Within Protestant Theology
		Ethical Challenges
			Suffering in Dante’s Purgatorio
			Suffering in Healing
			Limited Knowledge and Instrumentalization of Suffering
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 14 Dante’s Economy of Words after Marx
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		Notes
		References
Index