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by William Franke (Author)
While Covid-19 focused attention on the hope of finding a techn(olog)ical solution, this book asks: Is there a different kind of hope in what is not within our own means and methods, a hope that breaks us open beyond ourselves into relation with something other and absolute perhaps divine or real beyond our control and comprehension
Author Biography
William Franke is Professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. He is currently Francesco de Dombrowski Professor in Residence at the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) in Florence, Italy, and Senior Fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics. He has been Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macao, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Navarra, and Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and the Study of Religions at the University of Salzburg. His books include On What Cannot Be Said (2007); Poetry and Apocalypse (2009); Dante and the Sense of Transgression (2013); A Philosophy of the Unsayable (2014); The Revelation of Imagination (2015); Secular Scriptures (2016); A Theology of Literature (2018); The Universality of What Is Not (2020); The Divine Vision of Dante's Paradiso (2021); The Vita Nuova and the New Testament (2021); Dante's Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought (2021); Dantologies (2024); Don Quixote and the Quest for the Absolute in Literature (2024); and others.
