Dante's Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman

by Heather Webb

Persona: Dante's Ethics of the Transhuman explores the concept of personhood as it appears in Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona. The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of "transhuman" potentiality in which the human person is, after death, fully integrated into co-presence with other individuals in a network of relations based on mutual recognition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198733488
• ISBN13: 9780198733485
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.6"