Dante's Christian Ethics - 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 Christian Ethics write by George Corbett. This book was released on 2020-03-12. Dante's Christian Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a major re-appraisal of the Commedia as originally envisaged by Dante: as a work of ethics. Privileging the ethical, Corbett increases our appreciation of Dante's eschatological innovations and literary genius. Drawing upon a wider range of moral contexts than in previous studies, this book presents an overarching account of the complex ordering and political programme of Dante's afterlife. Balancing close readings with a lucid overview of Dante's Commedia as an ethical and political manifesto, Corbett cogently approaches the poem through its moral structure. The book provides detailed interpretations of three particularly significant sins - pride, sloth, and avarice - and the three terraces of Purgatory devoted to them. While scholars register Dante's explicit confession of pride, the volume uncovers Dante's implicit confession of sloth and prodigality (the opposing subvice of avarice) through Statius, his moral cypher.
The Moral System of Dante's Inferno
The Moral System of Dante's Inferno - 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 The Moral System of Dante's Inferno write by William Henry Vincent Reade. This book was released on 1909. The Moral System of Dante's Inferno available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dante in His Relation to the Theology and Ethics of the Middle Ages
Dante in His Relation to the Theology and Ethics of the Middle Ages - 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 in His Relation to the Theology and Ethics of the Middle Ages write by Edward Caird. This book was released on 1896. Dante in His Relation to the Theology and Ethics of the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy
The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy - 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 The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy write by Christian Moevs. This book was released on 2008-10-13. The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Christianity and the Triumph of Humor
Christianity and the Triumph of Humor - 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 Christianity and the Triumph of Humor write by Bernard Schweizer. This book was released on 2019-07-17. Christianity and the Triumph of Humor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, illustrating this point with a host of comedic examples. Humor is a powerful rhetorical tool for those who advocate and for those who satirize religious ideals. The book presents a compelling argument about the centrality of humor to the story of Western Christianity’s cultural and artistic development since the Middle Ages, taking a multi-disciplinary approach that combines literary criticism, religious studies, philosophy, theology, and social science. After laying out the conceptual framework in Part 1, Part 2 analyzes key works of religious comedy across the ages from Dante to the present, and it samples the breadth of contemporary religious humor from Brad Stine to Robin Williams, and from Monty Python to South Park. Using critical, historical, and conceptual lenses, the book exposes and overturns past attempts by church authorities, scholars, and commentators to limit and control laughter based on religious, ideological, or moral criteria. This is a unique look into the role of humor and comedy around religion. It will, therefore, appeal to readers interested in multiple fields of inquiry, including religious studies, humor studies, the history of ideas, and comparative literature.
