Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy
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- Author: Patrick Boyde, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: November 2006
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- isbn: 9780521028554
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Patrick Boyde argues that the way in which Dante represents what he (or his fictional self) saw and felt was profoundly influenced by the thirteenth-century science of psychology. Professor Boyde offers an authoritative account of the way in which vision and the emotions were understood in Dante's lifetime, and rereads many of the most dramatic and moving episodes in the Comedy, throwing light on Dante's narrative technique. Seeing and feeling were known to be inextricably bound up with thinking and voluntary action, and were treated as special cases of motion and motive forces. Dante's treatment of perception and passion is set in the context of Aristotelian epistemology, ethics and physics. In these areas too a knowledge of Dante's philosophical ideas is shown to illuminate his poetic representation of mental processes and value judgements, and the meaning of his journey towards the source of goodness and truth.
Read more- Important book by eminent Dante scholar
- Second volume of (unofficial) Dante trilogy (following Boyde's Dante: Philomythes and Philosopher, 1981)
- Interesting connections between Dante and thirteenth-century psychology and philosophy
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521028554
- length: 364 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.562kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Coming to Terms with Aristotle:
1. The prestige and unity of the Aristotelian corpus
2. Movement and change in lifeless bodies
3. Self-change: growth and reproduction in plant life
4. Self-movement: sensation and locomotion in animal life
Part II. The Operations of the Sensitive Soul in Man:
5. Perception of light and colour
6. Perception of shape, size, number movement and stillness
7. Imagining and dreaming
8. Body-language and the physiology of passion
Part III. The Operations of the Rational Soul
9. Self-direction: the powers of the mind
10. Aspects of human freedom
Part IV. Combined Operations:
11. Fear
12. Anger
13. Desire
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