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Claude Lefort

Dante’s Modernity

An Introduction to the Monarchia
With an Essay by Judith Revel
Ed. by Christiane Frey
Manuele Gragnolati
Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Arnd Wedemeyer
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020
ISBN 978-3-96558-003-9 | Paperback | 9.50 EUR | xix, 114 pp. | 20.3 cm x 12.7 cm
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One of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century reads Dante’s Monarchia, showing the surprising relevance of this radical fourteenth-century treatise that defends the necessity of universal monarchy and its independence from the Church for modern political theory. Judith Revel’s accompanying essay submits Lefort’s encounter with Dante to a transformative mis/reading and ties it to current debates on the question of the common.
Der Band Dante’s Modernity. An Introduction to the Monarchia macht den wegweisenden Aufsatz des französischen Philosophen Claude Lefort in der englischen Übersetzung von Jennifer Rushworth erstmals einem anglophonen Lesepublikum zugänglich. Er bietet nicht nur eine gelungene Einführung in Dantes politiktheoretisches Werk und dessen Rezeptionsgeschichte, sondern auch einen interessanten Überblick über Dantes Funktion in Claude Leforts politischer Philosophie. — Claudia Jacobi, ‘Claude Lefort, Dante’s Modernity’, Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch, 96.1 (2021)
Se lo studio di Lefort era stato già a suo tempo decisamente innovativo, la ripresa di Revel ne diviene una sorta di mise à jour. La traduzione inglese del saggio situa l’approccio della filosofa francese in direzione di un’apertura ulteriore, deliberatamente esposta a letture multiculturali e ancora una volta attualizzanti. Il testo di Lefort che rilegge Dante diventa strumento, emblema, si direbbe, di una lettura programmatica: Lefort/Dante. Reading, Misreading, Transforming. — Anna Pia Filotico, ‘Da Claude Lefort a Judith Revel. La modernità di Dante si può ancora esplorare?’, in La modernità di Dante, ed. by Mariano Pérez Carrasco and Raffaele Pinto (Florence: Cesati, 2023)

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Title
Dante’s Modernity
Subtitle
An Introduction to the Monarchia
With an Essay by Judith Revel
Author(s)
Claude Lefort
Editor(s)
Christiane Frey
Manuele Gragnolati
Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Arnd Wedemeyer
Identifier
Description
One of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century reads Dante’s Monarchia, showing the surprising relevance of this radical fourteenth-century treatise that defends the necessity of universal monarchy and its independence from the Church for modern political theory. Judith Revel’s accompanying essay submits Lefort’s encounter with Dante to a transformative mis/reading and ties it to current debates on the question of the common.
Is Part Of
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
4 February 2020
Number in Series
16
Subject
Alighieri, Dante – Monarchia
Lefort, Claude
political theory
modernity
Rights
© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
translator
Jennifer Rushworth
Language
en-GB
number of pages
xix, 114
Table Of Contents
Preface: By Christiane Frey
Translator’s Note
Acknowledgements
Dante’s Modernity | CLAUDE LEFORT | 1-85
Lefort/Dante: Reading, Misreading, Transforming | JUDITH REVEL | 87-108
References
Notes on the Contributors
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ISBN 978-3-96558-003-9 | Paperback | 9.50 EUR | xix, 114 pp. | 20.3 cm x 12.7 cm
ISBN 978-3-96558-004-6 | PDF | Open Access | .8 MB
ISBN 978-3-96558-005-3 | EPUB | Open Access | .8 MB
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