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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. Preface | CHRISTIANE FREY | vii–xiii Translator’s Note: Translating Lefort on Dante | JENNIFER RUSHWORTH | xv–xviii Dante’s Modernity | CLAUDE LEFORT | 1–85 Lefort/Dante: Reading, Misreading, Transforming | JUDITH REVEL | 87–108 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, and Arnd Wedemeyer, trans. by Jennifer Rushworth, Cultural Inquiry, 16 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020) |
