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Named alongside the Renaissance as an outgrowth of Dante's reinterpretive poetic project.
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A further student argues that Shakespeare's observational naturalism can complement Dante's framework by helping readers inhabit another person's situation and test moral judgment against modern life.
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He says earlier societies at least required elites to honor family publicly, whereas current openness can coincide with a deeper indifference to society's long-term health.
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Jiang also classifies new nuclear energy as alchemy in the same broad sense of manipulating the deep structure of reality.
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Jiang says the contemporary world assumes there are no moral laws at work and behaves as though humans can become their own God in a post-truth condition.
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Jiang says the modern western image of Ulysses as a romantic wanderer cuts against both Homer's and Dante's deeper moral orientation.
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Jiang treats cross-cultural belief in voodoo, ghosts, and demons as live evidence that possession remains intelligible outside a modern secular frame.
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Jiang further claims that Dante created modernity itself by founding the mental world of individuality, debate, and dialogue that the class inhabits.
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Jiang argues that so there is at yale or he was at yale but harold bloom was the greatest american literary critic he was a huge fan of william shakespeare uh in fact
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"...be able to find answers that are more pertinent to like modernity"
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"okay so society right so so so so this is what don is saying here um i said he's rising society's focus on expanding..."
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"society just becomes the anchor it just goes into free fall okay and um yes i mean i don't want to say homosexuality is..."
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"you think denting will agree with that or do you think it's the same thing as homosexuality right"
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"old alchemy because we're trying to exactly fabric it's it's ai is alchemy guys yes you're exactly right okay uh yes how about new..."
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"Yeah, so the problem with our world today is we don't think there are moral laws at work, right? We are in a post..."
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"in the canto to to really point that out but i thought it was important because i had a college professor who spoke about..."
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"and students were like yeah you get it like always go out go beyond your means be victor frankenstein um and he's like humanity's..."
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"damides and that's why they're shoving together um point three is that if you actually read homer's odyssey it's a very different take on..."
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"you think demonic possession or energetic possession isn't real any thoughts any comments and again there are no right answers but i'm curious as..."
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"grow up in southeast asia in malaysia singapore there's voodoo magic as we all know um so then oh in africa like if you..."
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"It's really the very basis of modernity. Look, the reality... Look, if you think about it, the reason why we're able to sit down..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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