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The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia

William Torrey Harris Β· 2017
58/100
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Harris's nineteenth-century philosophical reading of Dante is a genuine artifact of American intellectual history, but it is a narrow and demanding read even for specialists β€” you need to already know both Hegel and the Divine Comedy for it to pay off. The dossier shows no modern critical engagement, and the Hegelian framework has largely been superseded in contemporary Dante scholarship. Of archival interest, not practical reading value.

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