The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy (Hardcover, New)

The recovery of Dante's metaphysics - which are very different from our own - is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called "the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy." That problem is what to make of the Comedy's claim to the status of revelation, vision, or experiential record - as something more than imaginative literature. In this book Moevs offers the first sustained treatment of the metaphysical picture that grounds and motivates the Comedy, and the relation between those metaphysics and Dante's poetics. Moevs arrives at the radical conclusion that Dante believed that all of what we perceive as reality, the spatio-temporal world, is in fact a creation or projection of conscious being. Armed with this new understanding, Moevs is able to shed light on a series of perennial issues in the interpretation of the Comedy.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	March 2005
Authors:	Christian Moevs (Dr. Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Fellow of the Medieval Institute)
Dimensions:	244 x 163 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-517461-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-517461-5
Barcode:	9780195174618

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