Husserl brought the entire notion of the given—so important for German idealism—into question; in so doing, he moved beyond Dilthey, at least to a certain extent. In fact, an…

  In this section, Gadamer attempts to undermine Romantic hermeneutics; to do so, he will retrace Wilhelm Dilthey’s steps with different goals than the ones that Dilthey had.   Hermeneutics…

To get the first question out of the way, yes, I’ve been calling the last Cantos of Purgatory the Dante Apocalypse for several years now, and my term predates the…

General Introduction – The end of the season – On doctoral regalia – Summer courses – Slightly less minor internet celebrities – Ongoing projects Witches in the Bible – Saul…

Rather than write a giant post about the last nine Cantos, I’m going to attempt two short ones, the last dealing mainly with Dante’s apocalypse.  If, as I plan, I…

It’s fitting that my Dante posts stalled out right when it was time to write about sloth, no? Good Desire and Bad Desire In Canto 18 Virgil continues his explanation…

The Architecture of Purgatory This section of Cantos begins to reveal connections between the terraces, both in terms of the media through which the tragic and exemplary stories come to…

General Introduction – Should we talk about the weather? – Listener feedback – The Purgatory Experiment Poe Myths – Marrying his cousin – Drug addiction – Alcoholism – Death –…

I’ve often told people who aspire to graduate school in Biblical studies or theology that an English major might just serve them better than a Bachelor’s degree in ministry.  Most…

Finally entering Purgatory, our pilgrim gets into some of the coolest parts of the poem, those passages that start to form both a theology of desire and a theological account…

One reason that I can teach Purgatorio without the other two is because of its slow start.  Since the poem is a third done when the Pilgrim finally gets into…

Because I’ve not written about Dante in a couple summers (in 2011 I was wrapping up the dissertation, and in 2012 I was wrapping up Emmanuel’s QEP), I wanted to…

General Introduction – A note from the future: Michial passed his defense – Listener feedback World War I: A Hindenburg Overview – And other material conditions – Massive movements across…

General Introduction – Ooh, he card read good! – Listener feedback – Amish on the beach – We’re on Stitcher The History of Distance Education – Correspondence schools – For-profit…

General Introduction – We read the poem – Happy snow—happy, happy snow! – No listener feedback The Great Odes of 1819 – What do they have in common? – Experimentation…