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In the Footsteps of Dante - Crossroads of European Humanism (Hardcover)
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In the Footsteps of Dante - Crossroads of European Humanism (Hardcover)
Series: Mimesis
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Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks
ahead, seeking and building the "Great Beyond" (Manguel). Following
in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going a
rebours, but a commitment to the future, to exploring the potential
of humanity to "transhumanise". This dynamic of self-transcendence
in Dante's humanism (Ossola), which claims for European
civilisation a vocation for universalism (Ferroni), is analysed in
the volume at three crucial moments: Firstly, the establishment of
an emancipatory relationship between author and reader (Ascoli), in
which authorship is authority and not power; secondly, the
conception of vision as a learning process and horizon of
eschatological overcoming (Mendonca); finally, the relationship
with the past, which is never purely monumental, but ethically and
intertextually dynamic, in an original rewriting of the original
scriptural, medieval, and classical culture (Nasti, Bolzoni,
Bartolomei). A second group of contributions is dedicated to the
reconstruction of Dante's presence in Portuguese literature
(Almeida, Espirito Santo, Figueiredo, Marnoto, Vaz de Carvalho):
they attest to the innovative impact of Dante's work even in
literary traditions more distant from it.
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