Dante : un guide spirituel pour l’Europe moderne. Quelques remarques sur les lectures dantesques d’Ernst Troeltsch à l’occasion du jubilé allemand de la mort du poète en 1921
The 1921 sexcentenary commemoration of Dante’s death took place in Germany in the aftermath of World War I. Looking at the interpretations of the poet by theologian and philosopher Ernst Troeltsch, one of the major intellectuals of the young Weimar Republic, this article aims to examine how Dante is...
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Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Perspectives Médiévales |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/peme/51024 |
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| Summary: | The 1921 sexcentenary commemoration of Dante’s death took place in Germany in the aftermath of World War I. Looking at the interpretations of the poet by theologian and philosopher Ernst Troeltsch, one of the major intellectuals of the young Weimar Republic, this article aims to examine how Dante is used as a guide to meet the challenges of the reconciliation of Europe, of the place of religion in modernity, and of the democratization of culture. The Divine Comedy appears therefore as the only reasonable alternative to the temptation of The Decline of the West, published in Germany between 1918 and 1922. |
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| ISSN: | 2262-5534 |