Dante, Eros, and Kabbalah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante, Eros, and Kabbalah write by Mark Jay Mirsky. This book was released on 2003-10-01. Dante, Eros, and Kabbalah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Did Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy as a young man in Florence sleep with Beatrice Portinari before and after her marriage? Did the poet travel after her death through Hell to find her again? The clues to this academic detective story, writes Mark Jay Mirsky, lie not only in Dante's earlier poetry, The New Life, or in The Divine Comedy, but in the Zohar of Moses de Leon, a Jewish text written some years before and based on Neoplatonic ideas similar to those that inspired Dante. Purgatorio and Paradiso, the second and third volumes of the Commedia, are inaccessible to most readers unfamiliar with the boldness of Dante's use of the philosophical debate in the Middle Ages. Does Dante's Commedia hint at his hope of intimacy with Beatrice in the Highest Heaven? In this book Mirsky distinctively traces the influence on Dante of Provencal poets, medieval theologians, Dante's personal life, and the sources of his classical education to propose a radical reading of Dante. The text compounds the riddles of dream, poetry, philosophy, and Dante's concealed autobiography in his work. It treats the Commedia in the spirit of its title, as a hopeful and comic vision of the other world.
Kabbalah and Eros
Kabbalah and Eros - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kabbalah and Eros write by Moshe Idel. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Kabbalah and Eros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, the world's foremost scholar of Kabbalah explores the understanding of erotic love in Jewish mystical thought. Encompassing Jewish mystical literatures from those of late antiquity to works of Polish Hasidism, Moshe Idel highlights the diversity of Kabbalistic views on eros and distinguishes between the major forms of eroticism. The author traces the main developments of a religious formula that reflects the union between a masculine divine attribute and a feminine divine attribute, and he asks why such an "erotic formula" was incorporated into the Jewish prayer book. Idel shows how Kabbalistic literature was influenced not only by rabbinic literature but also by Greek thought that helped introduce a wider understanding of eros. Addressing topics ranging from cosmic eros and androgyneity to the affinity between C. J. Jung and Kabbalah to feminist thought, Idel's deeply learned study will be of consuming interest to scholars of religion, Judaism, and feminism.
Dante’s Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion
Dante’s Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante’s Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion write by G. Stone. This book was released on 2006-05-12. Dante’s Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the Islamic roots of the Western values of tolerance and religious pluralism, and considers Dante from the perspective of the Arab-Islamic philosophical tradition. It examines the relations between Islamic and Western thought, the historical origins of Western values, and the tradition of tolerance in classical Islamic thought.
Dante and Eros
Dante and Eros - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante and Eros write by Kenelm Foster. This book was released on . Dante and Eros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dante and Islam
Dante and Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante and Islam write by Jan M. Ziolkowski. This book was released on 2014-12-01. Dante and Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising encounters among religious traditions that the Middle Ages afforded. This collection of essays works through what was known of the Qur’an and of Islamic philosophy and science in Dante’s day and explores the bases for Dante’s images of Muhammad and Ali. It further compels us to look at key instances of engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
