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Dantologies: Theoretical and Theological Turns in Dante Studies

Dantologies: Theoretical and Theological Turns in Dante Studies

Franke, William

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Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032526564
ISBN13: 9781032526560
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2024
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book comprises a searching philosophical meditation on the evolution of the humanities in recent decades, taking Dante studies as an exemplary specimen. The contemporary currents of theory have decisively impacted this field, but Dante also has a strong relationship with theology. The idea that theology, teleology, and logocentric rationalities are simply overcome and swept away by new theoretical approaches proves much more complex as the theory revolution is exposed in its crypto-theological motives and origins. The revolutionary agendas and methodologies of theoretical currents have ushered in all manner of minorities and postcolonial and gender studies. But the exciting adventure they inaugurate shows up in quite a surprising light when brought to focus through the scholarly discipline of Dante studies as a terrain of dispute between traditional philology and postmodern theory. On this terrain, negative theology can play a peculiarly destabilizing, but also a conciliatory, role: it is equally critical of all languages for a theological transcendence to which it nevertheless remains infinitely open.

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