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'Dante's Modernity' pursues ambitions that go far beyond its ostensible editorial function as a preface to the medieval author's early 14th-century political treatise. The text exemplifies Lefort's signature method of taking political philosophy in new directions by drawing on the fundamental indeterminacy and openness of key works from the history of political philosophy. The result is as much an interpretation of the Monarchia as it is of political modernity itself. ; Christiane Frey, 'Preface', in 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), pp. vii–xiii

The re- of 'restrain' - not the more common iterative 're-' but a mere, if semantically obscure intensifier - marks a temporal paradox: the restraint that prevents a force from reaching its 'telos' is not only a delay, but the intervention of a separate, autonomous, and anti-teleological regime of time. The article reads the biblical figure of the 'katéchon', 'the withholder', as an expression of this paradox and as symptomatic of a political-theological ambivalence essential to the foundation of Western political thought. If the 'secular order' or 'worldly government' has the function of withholding both the ultimate salvation and the final outbreak of chaos, then it sustains itself only by postponing any determination of its value or effect.

The re- of 'restrain' — not the more common iterative 're-' but a mere, if semantically obscure intensifier — marks a temporal paradox: the restraint that prevents a force from reaching its telos is not only a delay, but the intervention of a separate, autonomous, and anti-teleological regime of time. The article reads the biblical figure of the katéchon, 'the withholder', as an expression of this paradox and as symptomatic of a political-theological ambivalence essential to the foundation of Western political thought. If the 'secular order' or 'worldly government' has the function of withholding both the ultimate salvation and the final outbreak of chaos, then it sustains itself only by postponing any determination of its value or effect. ; Christiane Frey, 'Restrain', in Re-: An Errant Glossary , ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 15 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019), pp. 141–49

Die Bedeutung, die der Religion auch in hochgradig modernen Gesellschaften zukommt, ist unübersehbar. Das wirft die Frage auf, was es eigentlich mit dem Projekt der Säkularisierung auf sich hat. In historischer wie systematischer Absicht versammelt der Band die einschlägigen Texte zu diesem Thema. Verfechter und Kritiker der Säkularisierung aus verschiedenen Disziplinen und Epochen – von Augustinus bis zum heutigen Postsäkularismus – kommen ebenso zu Wort wie christliche, islamische und jüdische Positionen sowie US-amerikanische Entwürfe, die ein besonderes Licht auf den europäischen Säkularisierungsdiskurs werfen. Ein umfassender Einblick in Geschichte und Gegenwart eines wirkmächtigen Konzepts.

In the second decade of the fourteenth century, Dante wrote the Monarchia, a treatise of political theology deeply rooted in the philosophy of his time, yet conspicuously original in its treatment of secular and ecclesiastical authority. Immediately attacked by the Church, and later banned until 1881, the treatise was long relegated to the margins of the history of political theory. In 1993, Claude Lefort re-established the importance and contemporary relevance of the treatise in an extensive introduction, entitled 'La modernité de Dante', for a French translation of the Monarchia. The symposium takes its cue from Lefort's suggestive invitation to reconsider Dante's endorsement of a 'temporal monarchy', that is, a secular order restricted to humankind's common pursuit of earthly happiness and hence fully independent from the Church. Lefort sketches the political reception of Dante's treatise, referenced by humanist advisors of princes, jurists of absolutist rule, and historians of nation-states alike, which, for him, testifies to a profound historical eccentricity of Dante's conception rather than a teleology inherent to the modern history of the West. For Lefort, 'the past always interrogates our present'. But how can a text of many context-bound contestations such as the Monarchia interrogate present political circumstance? Can Lefort's reading serve as a model of a historically reflected political philosophy? How to account for historical efficacy without risking a reamalgamation of history and ideas into a redemptive philosophy of history? How to make sense of the entanglement the Monarchia posits between knowledge, happiness, and politics? What is Dante's conception of the common, what its relation to an essentially collective knowledge that can only be pursued in universal peace? The symposium brings together scholars from different fields in order to reconsider the Monarchia in dialogue with Lefort's suggestions and discuss its potentials and limits for imagining politics today. Judith Revel (Université ...

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. ; 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)

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Play in the Age of Goethe and Today -- Part I. Free Play -- CHAPTER ONE. Beauty and Erotic Play: Anacreontic Poetry's Transformation of Aesthetic Philosophy -- CHAPTER TWO. Free Play in German Idealism and Poststructuralism -- Part II. Games of Chance -- CHAPTER THREE. "Mit dem Spiele spielen": Lessing's Play for Tolerance -- CHAPTER FOUR. Play with Memory and Its Topoi -- Part III. Children's Play -- CHAPTER FIVE. Narcissus at Play: Goethe, Piaget, and the Passage from Egocentric to Social Play -- CHAPTER SIX. Playthings: Goethe's Favorite Toys -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Kindergarten and the Pedagogy of Play in the German Educational Revolution -- Interlude -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Invective, Eulogy, Play: Jacobi's Sock 1799 -- Part IV. The Play of Language -- CHAPTER NINE. Between Speaking and Listening: Jean Paul's Wordplay -- CHAPTER TEN. Authorship, Translation, Play: Schleiermacher's Metalangual Poetics -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Playing with Words in Early German Romanticism -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index