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Dante's Broken Hammer
Graham Harman
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Description for Dante's Broken Hammer
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254.
It is well known that Dante s poetic works interpret love as themoving force of the universe: as embodied in his muse Beatrice fromLa Vita Nuova onward, as well as the much holier persons inhabitingParadiso. Likewise, if love is the ultimate form of sincerity, it is easyto interpret the Inferno as a brilliant counterpoint of anti-sincerity, governed by fraud and blasphemy along with the innocuous form offraud known as humour (strangely absent from all parts of Dante scosmos other than hell).In turn, the middle ground of Purgatorio is where Harman locatesDante s clearest theory of sincerity. Yet this is only ... Read more
It is well known that Dante s poetic works interpret love as themoving force of the universe: as embodied in his muse Beatrice fromLa Vita Nuova onward, as well as the much holier persons inhabitingParadiso. Likewise, if love is the ultimate form of sincerity, it is easyto interpret the Inferno as a brilliant counterpoint of anti-sincerity, governed by fraud and blasphemy along with the innocuous form offraud known as humour (strangely absent from all parts of Dante scosmos other than hell).In turn, the middle ground of Purgatorio is where Harman locatesDante s clearest theory of sincerity. Yet this is only ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Repeater
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910924303
SKU
V9781910924303
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About Graham Harman
Graham Harman (born in 1968 in Iowa City, Iowa) is DistinguishedUniversity Professor at the American University in Cairo.He is editor of the Speculative Realism series at Edinburgh UniversityPress, and with Bruno the co-editor of the New Metaphysics series atOpen Humanities Press (London). Among his most recent books areBells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism (Zero Books, 2013), Bruno Latour: Reassembling the ... Read more
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