Glossary
Jiang's shorthand for anachronistically reading Dante through present-day assumptions rather than the cosmology and conflicts of 1321.
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2026 lens
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay. All right. So a couple comments. First of all, let's start with precise morphology. He is not a theologian. He is a poet...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay. All right. So a couple comments. First of all, let's start with precise morphology. He is not a theologian. He is a poet...."
Key Notes
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Jiang warns that modern readers can misread Dante by projecting a 2026 perspective onto a text from 1321, when people held a very different conception of the universe.
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"Okay. All right. So a couple comments. First of all, let's start with precise morphology. He is not a theologian. He is a poet...."
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"...think, it could be because you're looking at it from a 2026 lens. All right? But remember, this year, 1321. Okay? So it's hard..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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