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Dante's Modernity: An Introduction to the Monarchia. With an Essay by Judith Revel

Dante's Modernity: An Introduction to the Monarchia. With an Essay by Judith Revel

Lefort, Claude
Frey, Christiane
Rushworth, Jennifer

Paperback

Series: Cultural Inquiry, Book 16

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $10.00

ISBN10: 3965580035
ISBN13: 9783965580039
Publisher: ICI Berlin
Published: Feb 4 2020
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads Dante's Monarchia and demonstrates the surprising relevance of this radical fourteenth-century treatise defending the necessity of a universal monarchy independent from the Church. Written to accompany a new French translation of Dante's treatise in 1993 and appearing here for the first time in English, Lefort's essay exemplifies his signature method of taking political philosophy in new directions by reframing key works from the history of political thought. Dante's Monarchia was attacked early on by the Church, burned as heretical in 1329, and remained on the Vatican's index of prohibited works until 1881. With trenchant insight and his characteristic attention to detail, Lefort pursues the often hidden influence of Dante's long suppressed treatise on the politics and political thought of subsequent centuries. He also challenges us to explore its still unrealized potential by disentangling Dante's notion of universal sovereignty from its historical links to imperialism and nationalism. Drawing out the provocation of Dante's treatise for contemporary debates, Lefort's essay presents readers of Dante with a remarkably fresh account of an oft-neglected yet crucial part of the author's oeuvre.

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