Dante and Derrida : face to face

Summary: "Discusses Derrida as a religious thinker, reading Dante's Commedia and Derrida's religious writings together.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.Francis J. Ambrosio is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and the editor of The Question of Christian Philosophy Today."--EBSCO.

Record details

ISBN: 0791480410
ISBN: 9780791480410
ISBN: 9780791470053
ISBN: 0791470059
ISBN: 1429465735
ISBN: 9781429465731
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 240 pages).
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Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Vita nuova : the promise of writing -- Inferno : the aporia of forgiveness -- Purgatorio : re-turning to the scene of forgiveness -- Paradiso : turning tears into smiles -- Conclusion: In memoriam : a smile in passing--
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.