{"product_id":"reading-as-the-angels-read-9781442637061","title":"Reading as the Angels Read","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn uncompleted manuscript that combines lyric poetry and prose commentary, the \u003cem\u003eBanquet\u003c\/em\u003e (or \u003cem\u003eConvivio\u003c\/em\u003e) is one of Dante Alighieri’s most important and least understood philosophical texts.  As Maria Luisa Ardizzone shows, its language and logic are deeply connected to medieval culture and the philosophical debates of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eReading as the Angels Read\u003c\/em\u003e, Ardizzone reconstructs the cultural and socio-political background that provided the motivation for the \u003cem\u003eBanquet\u003c\/em\u003e and offers a bold new reading of this ambitious work. Drawing on a deep knowledge of Dante’s engagement with biblical, Augustinian, Neoplatonic, and Aristotelian philosophy, she suggests that the \u003cem\u003eBanquet\u003c\/em\u003e is not an encyclopedia of learning as many have claimed, but Dante’s attempt to articulate a theory of human happiness in which perfect knowledge is the natural basis for a well-organized political community.\u0026amp;nbsp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Ardizzone contribution is subtle and illuminating… She sets before her readers a banquet that constitutes an important contribution to the field of Dante studies.’ -- Jason Aleksander * Renaissance Quarterly vol 70:04:2017 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Chapter One: Introducing a Cosmic Intellectual Dimension: The Dialectical Nature of Human Essence  Chapter Two: Loving a Divine Idea: A Cognitive and Educational Process  Chapter Three: Reading with Suspicio: Mind and Philosophy. A Philosophical Discussion about Mind  Chapter Four: Community and Intellectual Happiness: The Invention of a Shifting Logical Subject  Chapter Five: Syllogism and Censura: The Moralization of Nobility and the Decline of Intellectual and Political Aristocracy  Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408359727447,"sku":"9781442637061","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442637061.jpg?v=1730502583","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-as-the-angels-read-9781442637061","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}