Francis J. Ambrosio

Dante and Derrida (eBook, PDF)

Face to Face

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791480410
• Artikelnr.: 60501990

Autorenporträt

Francis J. Ambrosio is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and the editor of The Question of Christian Philosophy Today.