Dante's hermeneutics of salvation : passages to freedom in the Divine comedy / Christine O'Connell Baur.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-315) and index.

Includes some text in Italian.

"As well as presenting fresh interpretations of the Divine Comedy based on the philosophical thought of Augustine and Aquinas and the hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer, the work offers unique perspectives on various passages that have troubled scholars through the ages. Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation breathes new life into Dante's journey, making our own reading of the poem a genuine participation in its profound truth and meaning."--Jacket

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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Situating the Project -- DIVISION ONE -- 1 Language, Mediation, and Salvation in Dante�s Commedia -- I. The Dualism of Interpretation -- II. The Duality of the Temporal and Eternal Orders -- III. The Narrative Account Is the Journey -- 2 Meaning -- I. The Dialectical Relation between the Pilgrim and the Realms of the Afterlife and between the Reader and the Text -- II. The Disclosure of the Meaning of Finite Freedom -- 3 Historicality and Truth -- I. Historicism and Historicality -- II. Active and Passive Nostalgia

III. Critique of Historicism4 The Recapitulatory Nature of Finite Understanding -- I. The Alternative to Historicist and Romantic Hermeneutics: A Dialectical Reading -- II. Three Examples of Reading in the Commedia -- III. Interpretation as Recapitulation -- 5 The Hermeneutics of Conversion -- I. Conversion: A Different Way of Being on This Earth, A Different Way of Being-in-the-World -- II. Conversion: The Dialectic of Past and Future -- III. Recapitulation and Anticipatory Resoluteness: The Pilgrim�s Conversion Back to His Future

IV. Positive and Negative DialecticV. The Disclosure of the Meaning of the World through Language -- DIVISION TWO -- 6 Dialectical Reading and the Dialectic of Salvation -- I. The Dialectical Relation between Reader and Text -- II. The Dialectical Relation between Pride and Humility -- III. Interpretation: A Dialectic of Pride and Humility -- IV. The Continuity between Interpretation and Salvation -- V. Resurrection -- 7 Paradisal Hermeneutics: Reading the Volume of the Universe -- I. Introduction: Two Related Claims -- II. Paradisal Hermeneutics

III. Why Is Virgil Damned? The Reader�s Final ExaminationIV. Making Sense of Virgil: Sayers, Singleton, and the Allegory of �Natural Reason� -- V. The Continuity between Nature and Grace -- VI. Three Interpretations of Virgil -- VII. Virgil Had Insufficient Grace -- VIII. Help and Desire -- IX. What Is Grace? -- X. Virgil�s Side of the Story -- XI. Faith and Freedom -- XII. Conclusion: Who Is Virgil? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R

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