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Tokyo – International Speakers Series on Future of the Humanities

  International Speakers Series on “The on Future of the Humanities International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, October 10-11, 2013 October 11* Seminar on Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign,’ First Day. October 11* ““Umile e alta più che creatura” (Par. 33.2): Marian Humility, Theosis, and the Transgression of the Commedia,”…

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York Conference p. 2

Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Search » Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Beyond Words: The Unknowable and the Unutterable in early modernity Posted on 10 January 2018 Keynote Speaker: William Franke (Vanderbilt). Author of ‘On What Cannot be Said’ and ‘A Philosophy of the Unsayable’ This conference will explore the parameters…

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York Conference

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Manila, Philippines, Catholic University

“Negative Theology,” Philippine Academy of Philosophical Research, University of Santo Tomas (“The Catholic University of the Philippines”), Manila, Philippines, December 6, 2015 “Theological Revelation and Secular Reason:  Critical Proposals for a Meeting of Minds and Cultures,” Special Lecture in the Department of Philosophy, Pontifical & Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines,December 5, 2015 UST…

Posted by on March 18, 2018 in News


Tokyo, Japan October 2013

Symposium on 2013 book: ‘Dante and the Sense of Transgression’, ICU, Tokyo, Japan “Transgression and Transcendence: What Makes Religion Radical?” ICU conference poster.in Word-5Program Symposium on Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign’ Seminar-at-ICU-Institute-for-Christian-and-Culture (highlighted) International Speakers Series on “The International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, October 10-11, 2013 October 11* Seminar on…

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Dante’s Interpretive Journey

Dante’s  Interpretive Journey University of Chicago Press – Publishers Website Franke, William Dante’s Interpretive Journey. 261 p. 6 x 9 1996 Series: (RP) Religion and Postmodernism Series Dante’s Interpretive Journey proposes a theory of the existential, theological structures of interpretation by which our lives in language are constructed.  It brings the theological hermeneutics of Dante’s…

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Dichtung und Apokalypse

Translation into German by Michael Sonntag and Ursula Liebing: Dichtung und Apokalypse: Theologische Erschliessungen der dichterischen Sprache Publishers Webpage Aus dem Amerikanischen von Ursula Liebing und Michael Sonntag Salzburger Theologische Studien Band 39 University of Salzburg Studies in Theology, vol. 39 (Intercultural 6) Insbruck: Tyrolia Press, 2011 ISBN 978-3-7022-3050-0 (216 pages) Dichtung und Apokalypse sucht nach…

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Dante and the Sense of Transgression

Dante and the Sense of Transgression:  “The Tresspass of the Sign” Publisher’s Website: Continuum:  New Directions in Religion and Literature Series ISBN: 9781441160423  (paperback)    9781441136916 (hardcover) In Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante’s poetic vision.  Conversely, Dante’s medieval masterpiece…

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A Philosophy of the Unsayable

A Philosophy of the Unsayable This monograph proposes an original philosophy pivoting on analysis of the limits of language and explains why the encounter with what exceeds speech has become the crucial philosophical issue of our time.  It also offers readings of literary texts, especially the poetic oeuvres of Paul Celan and Edmond Jabès, in…

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The Revelation of Imagination

The Revelation of Imagination:   From Homer and the Bible through Virgil and Augustine to Dante Link to Publishers Website Link to Project Muse: The Revelation of Imagination Link to Amazon page and customer reviews REVIEWS: Wayne Cristaudo, “The Wisdom of the Western Canon,” Review of Revelation of Imagination Rebecca Dark, Review of Revelation of Imagination…

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