Dante's Broken Hammer

Graham Harman

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Watkins
01 November 2018

A brand new reading of Dante by one of the 21st century's leading philosophers.

In this book the founder of object-oriented philosophy transforms one of the classic poets of the Western canon, Dante Alighieri, into an edgy stimulus for contemporary continental thought. It is well known that Dante's poetic works interpret love as the moving force of the universe- as embodied in his muse Beatrice from La Vita Nuova onward, as well as the much holier persons inhabiting Paradiso. Likewise, if love is the ultimate form of sincerity, it is easy to interpret the Inferno as a brilliant counterpoint of anti-sincerity, governed by fraud and blasphemy along with the innocuous form of fraud known as humor (strangely absent from all parts of Dante's cosmos other than hell). In turn, the middle ground of Purgatorio is where Harman locates Dante's clearest theory of sincerity. Yet this is only the beginning. For while Dante provides a suitable background for the metaphysics of commitment found in such later thinkers as Pascal, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Badiou, he also provides even more important resources for overcoming two centuries of philosophy shaped by Immanuel Kant.

By: Graham Harman
Imprint: Watkins
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 244g
ISBN: 9781910924303
ISBN 10: 191092430X
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Political (Pluto Press, 2014) andImmaterialism: Objects and Social Theory (Polity 2016)

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