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 ne.
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
