Dante and Derrida: Face to Face

Discusses Derrida as a religious thinker, reading Dante's Commedia and Derrida's religious writings together.

Reading Dante's Commedia alongside Jacques Derrida's later religious writings, Francis J. Ambrosio explores what these works reveal about religion as a fundamental dynamic of human existence, about freedom and responsibility, and about the significance of writing itself. Ambrosio argues that both the many telling differences between them and the powerful bonds that unite them across ...