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Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy

Author: Patrick Boyde, University of Cambridge

Date Published: November 2006
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format: Paperback
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. He rereads many of the most dramatic and moving episodes in the Comedy, and shows how knowledge of Dante's philosophical ideas can help us to understand the meaning of his journey toward the source of goodness and truth.
- 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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"...in it we are allowed to watch an elegant and graceful explicator at work, a truly learned and inventive reader who manages--mirabile dictu!--to make Aristotle jump right off the page at you. As a review of basic Scholastic terminology and theory, as a 'handbook' of philosophical backgrounds to the Commedia, and as an example of source scholarship at its very best, this is a book that every Dantist should read." Paul Spillenger, Speculum

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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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Patrick Boyde, University of Cambridge