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Dante's Persons - An Ethics of the Transhuman (Hardcover)
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Dante's Persons - An Ethics of the Transhuman (Hardcover)
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Dante's Persons explores the concept of personhood as it appears in
Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that
the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona.
The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of 'transhuman'
potentiality in which the human person is, after death, fully
integrated into co-presence with other individuals in a network of
relations based on mutual recognition and interpersonal attention.
The Commedia, Heather Webb argues, aims to depict and to actively
construct a transmortal community in which the plenitude of each
individual's person is realized in and through recognition of the
personhood of other individuals who constitute that community,
whether living or dead. Webb focuses on the strategies the Commedia
employs to call us to collaborate in the mutual construction of
persons. As we engage with the dead that inhabit its pages, we
continue to maintain the personhood of those dead. Webb
investigates Dante's implicit and explicit appeals to his readers
to act in relation to the characters in his otherworlds as if they
were persons. Moving through the various encounters of Purgatorio
and Paradiso, this study documents the ways in which characters are
presented as persone in development or in a state of plenitude
through attention to the 'corporeal' modes of smiles, gazes,
gestures, and postures. Dante's journey provides a model for the
formation and maintenance of a network of personal attachments,
attachments that, as constitutive of persona, are not superseded
even in the presence of the direct vision of God.
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