LIBROS DEL AUTOR: william franke

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  • The Thoughtful Muse
    William Franke
    The verses in this book were written in re-creational moments of reflection, whether on specific incidents or on constants of existence perceived in particular places under unique circumstances. They aim to preserve and convey some vestige of these revelatory experiences. They strive to raise the attendant illuminations into a heightened consciousness that opens upon the univer...
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    36,49 €

  • The Vagabond Scholar
    William Franke
    William Franke wrote these poems full of youthful inspirations in lyrical verse in the 1980s after completing an MA degree in philosophy and theology at Oxford University. Leaving Oxford, he embarked in the summer of 1980 on the 'grand tour' of Europe in the tradition of British aristocrats from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. He followed the footsteps of the archety...
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    11,50 €

  • The Sign of the Swan
    William Franke
    Offers a fresh interpretation of French Symbolist poetics, showing how Mallarmé, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud used visionary, transformative language to challenge modern secular perceptions of reality and reveal the enduring power of poetry. Despite intensive scholarly activity around its various protagonists, there is surprisingly little comprehensive attempt at critical interpreta...
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    35,83 €

  • Don Quixote’s Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature
    William Franke
    Don Quixote’s madly ideal fiction is as relevant as ever in our 'post-truth' era of virtual reality. Classic Christian paradigms of prophetic revelation and expiatory self-sacrifice emerge transformed in the startling new light of current social revolutions such as transgendering and the apocalyptic biopolitics of transhumanism. ...
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    79,97 €

  • Dantologies
    William Franke
    The comparison of current theoretical approaches to Dante, particularly those mobilizing the resources of theology, serves to adumbrate and illustrate, by application to Dante studies as a specific field of scholarship, the author’s own philosophy of culture and the humanities ...
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    79,83 €

  • The Divine Vision of Dante’s Paradiso
    William Franke
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    36,63 €

  • Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought
    William Franke
    This book rewrites modern intellectual history, taking Dante’s lyrical language in Paradiso as enacting a Trinitarian self-reflexivity that gives a theological spin to the birth of the modern subject already with the Troubadours. ...
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    80,82 €

  • Apophatic Paths from Europe to China
    William Franke
    An encounter between Franke’s philosophy of the unsayable and Eastern apophatic wisdom in the domains of poetry, thought, and culture.In Apophatic Paths from Europe to China, William Franke brings his original philosophy of the unsayable, previously developed from Western sources such as ancient Neoplatonism, medieval mysticism, and postmodern negative theology, into dialogue w...
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    47,04 €

  • A Theology of Literature
    William Franke
    With the tools of far-reaching revolutions in literary theory and informed by the poetic sense of truth, William Franke offers a critical appreciation and philosophical reflection on a way of reading the Bible as theological revelation. Franke explores some of the principal literary genres of the Bible--Myth, Epic History, Prophecy, Apocalyptic, Writings, and Gospel--as buildin...
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    17,12 €

  • Secular Scriptures
    William Franke
    With Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante, William Franke reexamines the role that literature plays in theological revelation. In the modern world, secularism typically means the exclusion of God from the world. Yet Franke, recognizing that secularity itself is built into religion and revelation, argues that theologically sensitive poetry has driv...
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    40,38 €

  • A Philosophy of the Unsayable
    William P. Franke / William PFranke
    In A Philosophy of the Unsayable, William Franke argues that the encounter with what exceeds speech has become the crucial philosophical issue of our time. He proposes an original philosophy pivoting on analysis of the limits of language. The book also offers readings of literary texts as poetically performing the philosophical principles it expounds. Franke engages with philos...
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    52,22 €

  • Dante and the Sense of Transgression
    William Franke
    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 becomes our guide to rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory. Beyond suggestive archetypes like Adam and Ulysses that hint at a...
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    52,53 €