| Dante and Derrida: Face to Face Contributor(s): Ambrosio, Francis J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791470059 ISBN-13: 9780791470053 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2007 Annotation: Discusses Derrida as a religious thinker, reading Dante's Commedia and Derrida's religious writings together. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction - Philosophy | Religious - Religion | Philosophy |
| Dewey: 851.1 |
| LCCN: 2006014433 |
| Series: SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.46" W x 9.01" (1.02 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Reading Dante's Commedia alongside Jacques Derrida's later religious writings, Francis J. Ambrosio explores what these works reveal about religion as a fundamental dynamic of human existence, about freedom and responsibility, and about the significance of writing itself. Ambrosio argues that both the many telling differences between them and the powerful bonds that unite them across centuries show that Dante and Derrida share an identity as religious writers that arises from the human experiences of faith, hope, and love in response to the divine mystery of being human. For both Dante and Derrida, Ambrosio contends, "scriptural religion" reveals that the paradoxical tension of freedom and absolute responsibility must lead to the mystery of forgiveness, a secret that these two share and faithfully keep by surrendering to its necessity to die so as always to begin again anew. |