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By Giorgio Agamben,Daniel Heller-Roazen

This ebook, by means of one in all Italy's most crucial and unique modern philosophers, represents a vast, basic, and bold undertaking―nothing under an try to reconsider the character of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships between theology, poetry, and philosophy in a practice of literature initiated by means of Dante.
The writer offers "literature" as a collection of formal or linguistic genres that debate or boost theological matters at a definite distance from the discourse of theology. This distance starts to seem in Virgil and Ovid, however it turns into decisive in Dante and in his selection to jot down within the vernacular. His vernacular Italian reaches again via classical allusion to the Latin that used to be in his day the language of theology, however it does so with a distinction. it's no twist of fate that during the Commedia Virgil is Dante's guide.
The booklet opens with a dialogue of simply how Dante's poem is a "comedy," and it concludes with a dialogue of the "ends of poetry" in numerous senses: enjambment on the ends of strains, the concluding strains of poems, and the tip of poetry as a method of scripting this kind of literature. in fact, to have poetry "end" doesn't suggest that folks cease writing it, yet that literature passes right into a interval within which it really is fascinated by its personal finishing, with its personal bounds and boundaries, old and otherwise.
Though many of the essays make particular connection with a number of authors of the Italian literary culture (including Dante, Polifilo, Pascoli, Delfini, and Caproni), they go beyond the confines of Italian literature and have interaction numerous different literary and philosophical authors (Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Boethius, the Provençal poets, Mallarmé, and Hölderlin, between others).

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