Dante's persons : an ethics of the transhuman / Heather Webb
| データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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| 版 | First edition |
| 出版情報 | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press , 2016 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | 1 online resource |
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| 一般注記 | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index "Explores the concept of personhood as it appears in Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona. The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of 'transhuman' potentiality in which the human person is, after death, fully integrated into co-presence with other individuals in a network of relations based on mutual recognition and interpersonal attention. The Commedia, Heather Webb argues, aims to depict and to actively construct a transmortal community in which the plenitude of each individual's person is realized in and through recognition of the personhood of other individuals who constitute that community, whether living or dead. Webb focuses on the strategies the Commedia employs to call us to collaborate in the mutual construction of persons. As we engage with the dead that inhabit its pages, we continue to maintain the personhood of those dead. Webb investigates Dante's implicit and explicit appeals to his readers |
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| 著者標目 | *Webb, Heather, 1976- author |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia LCSH:Self in literature LCSH:Future life in literature LCSH:Persona (Literature) |
| 分 類 | LCC:PQ4432.S44 DC:440 |
| 巻冊次 | ISBN:9780198733485 ; XISBN:0198733488  ISBN:9780191797941
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| ISBN | 9780198733485 |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198733485.001.0001 |
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