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AWARD WINNER<\/a>:\u00a0Hermes Award, 2003: Book of the Year in Phenomenological Hermeneutics,\u00a0Agora Hermeneutica<\/em>, The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH), 2021<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Website: The Divine Vision of Dante’s Paradiso<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“This is a brilliant and enjoyable book. With sharp interdisciplinary acumen, Franke provides lucid and creative readings that offer original and fruitful perspectives on Dante’s Commedia<\/em>, highlighting its relevance for contemporary studies in theology, philosophy and literature. The Divine Vision of Dante’s Paradiso<\/em> compellingly shows how Dante’s bold and experimental writing can, even for us today, vivify in striking ways reflection on truth and its mediation.”<\/p>\n

–Vittorio Montemaggi, King’s College London<\/p>\n

‘This book possesses the outstanding qualities one has come to expect from Franke\u2019s scholarship: broad and deep mastery of the Western philosophical and theological traditions; attentive, nuanced, and fecund literary analysis; a crystal-clear, jargon-free, economical, elegant, and at times lyrical prose; a searching and intelligent devotion to groundbreaking inquiry. In Franke\u2019s view, Dante\u2019s longed-for vision of God is nothing other than his vision of Letters \u2013 of Writing that, in keeping with the doctrine of Incarnation, both is and is not God. Such Writing is not human but is revelation: it shows God visibly, yet at the same time it is not God\u2019s essence as the Absolute and the Infinite.’<\/p>\n

Gregory B. Stone – Louisiana State University<\/p>\n

\u2018Franke seeks to interpret Dante\u2019s vision of writing in ways that make it available to philosophical analysis and speculative contemplation, methods aesthetic and spiritual at the same time. Such connections offer important resources for philosophical and theological reflections that resonate ‘in the excruciating dilemmas of [the] present cultural predicament’ … Highly recommended.\u2019<\/p>\n

–D. Pesta\u00a0Source: Choice Connect<\/span><\/p>\n

“Franke’s book is a fInely focused critical reading of Canto XVIII of Paradiso which aims to flesh out how divine vision is represented through the visibility of a text-in this case, the incipit of the Book of Wisdom-when the souls convey to Dante, “DILIGITE IUSTITIAM QUI IUDICATIS TERRAM” (Par. 18.91-93).”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0— SEAN WIDLAKE, Rutgers University,\u00a0The Italian Quarterly,\u00a0<\/em>XV (2023): 253-56 (Summer-Fall nos. 237-38)<\/p>\n

“As a means through which to engage with Dante (vis-a-vis Hegel, Derrida, Wittgenstein, etc.), The Divine Vision of Dante’s Paradiso<\/em>, certainly offers a new reading of the Commedia<\/em>, a thorough depiction of the Heaven of Jove, and provides forays into looking at the more mystical and esoteric aspects of Dante’s magnum opus. In addition, Franke provides for an English-reading audience several German sources and commentaries of Dante that aren’t typically featured. That aside, it does at times seem that the density of language, and the appeal to philosophical terms which are not always explained, obfuscates rather than elucidates what is otherwise a novel and incredibly interesting reading of a very specific moment in Dante’s Commedia<\/em>. Still, I would highly recommend this work to those readers interested in examining Dante through the lens of philosophy and literary theory, as well as for those scholars interested in Dante’s connection to mysticism.”
\n— SEAN WIDLAKE, Rutgers University,\u00a0The Italian Quarterly,\u00a0<\/em>XV (2023): 253-56 (Summer-Fall nos. 237-38)<\/p>\n

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