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Dante's Persons : An Ethics of the Transhuman by Heather Webb is a language learning available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dante's Persons : An Ethics of the Transhuman about?
Dante's Persons is a study of the concept of personhood in Dante's Comedy. Focusing on the encounters staged in Purgatory and Paradise, the book shows how Dante redefines personhood in his otherworlds as depending on mutual recognition and interpersonal attention. The book argues that Dante fills his text with characters that readers are meant to relate to as persons. He accomplishes this by means of dense corporeal detail, suchas gestures and postures. Building from this possibility of recogniz
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- Author
- Heather Webb
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198733485
- Category
- language learning
- Subjects
- Romance, History, Poetry
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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