Dante and the Other

<p><em>Dante and the Other</em> brings together noted and emerging Dante scholars with theologians philosophers psychoanalysts and psychotherapists bridging the Florentine’s premodern world to today’s postmodern context. Exploring how alterity has become a potent symbol in religion philosophy politics and culture this book will be of interest to many related fields.</p><p>The book offers a thorough foundation in approaching Dante as proto-phenomenologist. It includes an informative review of literature historical insight into Dante’s poetics-toward-ineffability as alternative to modern scientism a foray into science fiction existential elaborations phenomenological analyses of <i>Inferno’s</i> Canto I and applications to psychotherapy and qualitative research. It also contains a poem from an imagined Virgil retiring in Limbo and a meditation on Dante’s complicated relationship to homosexuality. </p><p>Dante and the Other presents the mystical passion of apophatic spirituality the millennia-spanning Augustinianism of radical orthodoxy Levinas Heidegger and many others—all driven by Dante’s Labors of Love. It is essential reading for Dante scholars as well as readers interested in his works. </p>