{"product_id":"why-dante-matters-9781472951038","title":"Why Dante Matters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Took provides an entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all of Western literature, Dante Alighieri.\u003c\/b\u003eThe year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, divides the world with Shakespeare, there being no third'. His, like ours, was a world of moral uncertainty and political violence, all of which made not only for the agony of exile but for an ever deeper meditation on the nature of human happiness.In \u003ci\u003eWhy Dante Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, John Took offers by way of three in particular of Dante's works  the \u003ci\u003eVita Nova\u003c\/i\u003e as the great work of his youth, the \u003ci\u003eConvivio\u003c\/i\u003e as the great work of his middle years and the \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e as the great work of his maturity  an account, not merely of Dante's development as a poet and philosopher, but of his continuing presence to us as a guide to man's wellbeing as man.     Committed as he was to the welfare not only of his contemporaries but of those \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface: Preliminary Confession\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIntroduction: Dante and the Existential Point of View\u003c\/b\u003e Dante at the Point of Ultimate Concern Dante: Who, What, Where and When? Course of the Argument  \u003cb\u003e1 Dante, Self and Selfhood\u003c\/b\u003e Love-Procession and the Love-Imperative: Preliminary Considerations in the Areas of Theology and Ethics Patterns of Self-Relatedness: Being as \u003ci\u003eAhead\u003c\/i\u003e of Self, as\u003ci\u003e Away \u003c\/i\u003efrom Self and \u003ci\u003eAlongside \u003c\/i\u003eSelf A Phenomenology of Being  \u003cb\u003e2 The \u003ci\u003eVita Nova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Preliminary Considerations: New Life and a New Book Love and Love-Understanding: The Pilgrim Way A \u003ci\u003eCommedia a minore\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e3 The \u003ci\u003eConvivio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Far-wandering and Friendship: The Courage of the \u003ci\u003eConvivio\u003c\/i\u003e Feasting and Faring Well: A Guide for the Dispossessed Problems of Perspective and a Civic Ontology  \u003cb\u003e4 The \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Preliminary Considerations: Spiritual Journeying and the Courage to Be A Song of Ascents: \u003ci\u003eThe Commedia à la lettre\u003c\/i\u003e Journeying under the Aspect of Seeing \u003ci\u003e(Inferno)\u003c\/i\u003e Journeying under the Aspect of Striving \u003ci\u003e(Purgatorio)\u003c\/i\u003e Journeying under the Aspect of Surpassing \u003ci\u003e(Paradiso)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e5 The Power of the Word: Issues in the Area of Language and Literature\u003c\/b\u003e Being, Becoming and the Sanctity of the Word The Triumph and the Image and a Writerly Text  \u003cb\u003eConclusion: In Conversation with Dante\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003ci\u003eFurther Reading\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex of Names\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408783941975,"sku":"9781472951038","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472951038.jpg?v=1730504193","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/why-dante-matters-9781472951038","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}