The question of a (non)-relation of psychoanalysis and law requires a deeper analysis, in which... more The question of a (non)-relation of psychoanalysis and law requires a deeper analysis, in which their encounter becomes inescapable. The question of an absence of any guarantee is but a faint echo of the legal provision in effect in Germany from 1869 to 1939, allowing anyone to practice medicine without a license. By contrast, Freud’s book on lay analysis, but also some of Lacan’s considerations are marked by an explicit recourse to figures of juridical reflection, which can provide new material for the contestation of the limits imposed on psychoanalytic practices today, too.
When Immanuel Kant died in 1804, he left on his desk twelve fascicles of manuscript that he had b... more When Immanuel Kant died in 1804, he left on his desk twelve fascicles of manuscript that he had been working on since 1795, impeded by a progressive marasmus, until, "in December, 1803, he became incapable of signing his name."4 Soon after Kant's death, his survivors judged the manuscripts to be unfit for publication. As early as 1805 they became a public affair, when the periodical Der Freimiithige oder Ernst und Scherz demanded publication,5 and since then, the question whether and in what form Kant's latest writings should be published has been, and continues to be, passionately and polemically discussed. The manuscripts were lost, found,
In the last decade of his life, Siegfried Kracauer, now mostly known as a media theorist, began p... more In the last decade of his life, Siegfried Kracauer, now mostly known as a media theorist, began preparing a book on history. Unfinished at the time of his death, <i>History: The Last Things Before the Last</i> was published posthumously in 1969. This workshop will explore a concern that is arguably central to the book: the problem of historical time. For Kracauer, every conception of historical time has to confront what he calls its 'insoluble antinomy', the necessity to think the flow of time together with the shapes of time incommensurable to it. Over the course of our one-day workshop, we will discuss Kracauer's analysis of this antinomy and the challenge it poses to traditional historical categories such as the date, the period, and the transition between periods. Comprised of two parts, the workshop will start from a collective reading of excerpts from <i>History</i> in order to then consider its relation to other engagements with the 'ri...
Over the course of two decades, from 1995 to 2015, Giorgio Agamben published a series of nine boo... more Over the course of two decades, from 1995 to 2015, Giorgio Agamben published a series of nine books, not in sequence but conceived from the beginning as parts of a project sharing the title of its first volume, <em>Homo sacer</em>. These nine books have now been collected into a single volume edition in French (2016), English (2017), and Italian (2018), rendering visible the extent to which the project as a whole amounts to a radical revision of Western philosophy yet also enacted a painstaking self-revision in its course. With the entire trajectory of <i>Homo sacer </i>now evident in its completed arch and rearranged order, the symposium sets out to explore crucial concepts and issues at stake in the project and the new contours they reveal within the larger framework, while also interrogating the hidden spots in the work, unresolved points from which new researches will depart, as Agamben himself has incessantly done with his ever-growing meshwork of refere...
The tent represents an experimental and existential form of life and habitat, oscillating between... more The tent represents an experimental and existential form of life and habitat, oscillating between an always-possible departure and an often uncertain arrival. It is being associated with adventure and independence, but also with non-belonging, displacement, and being exposed. As a temporally finite accommodation and architecture, it can create refuge in the unlikeliest places, from the wilderness to urban wastelands. The tent's mobile construction is assembled from struts and ropes and covered with sheets or tarp. The skin of the tent works as a membrane, impermeable and permeable alike, which brings humans and environment into a relation to one another. Life in the tent provides transitory protection and comfort, but also offers the possibility to roam and escape a current life. Camping evokes ideas of freedom, nomadic existence, and a modest way of life. It is also associated with camping holidays, campfires, and horrible showers, yet also with thrill seekers and nature freaks...
1968 steht für Revolte, gesellschaftliche Erneuerung, intellektuelle Auseinandersetzungen, sexuel... more 1968 steht für Revolte, gesellschaftliche Erneuerung, intellektuelle Auseinandersetzungen, sexuelle Revolution und den Bruch mit einer autoritätsfixierten Elterngeneration. Eine Bewegung, die das heutige Verständnis von Gleichberechtigung, Toleranz und Meinungspluralismus entscheidend geprägt hat. Den einen gilt sie als Mythos und Erinnerungskonstrukt, anderen als Wegbereiter soziokultureller Transformationsprozesse, die die Demokratisierung vieler Lebensbereiche angestoßen hat. Welche Rolle spielt die 68er-Bewegung, die maßgeblich auch mit der Geschichte des Wagenbach Verlags verwoben ist, für die heutige politische und gesellschaftliche Situation? Warum steht die erkämpfte und unerschütterlich geglaubte Demokratie auf unsicherem Boden? Wieso bemächtigt sich die identitäre Rechte der Aktionsformen der APO? Warum ist Religion heute wieder so entscheidend, obwohl die 68er sie doch abgeschafft haben wollten? Und wo stehen Gleichberechtigung und Feminismus heute? Tom Koenigs studierte ...
Lines can evoke notions of form, contour, and trains of thought; they may indicate order or rando... more Lines can evoke notions of form, contour, and trains of thought; they may indicate order or randomness, continuity or division, give rise to complex meanings or shapeless chaos. Their 'breadthless length' (Euclid) serves as a foundation for geometry, the basis of alphabets and writing, the elementary component of visual representation; it provides the frame for musical notation, the basic unit of poetry and literature, the possibility of political division and segregation, and a fundamental resource for philosophical and historical reflections on the nature of movement, temporality, (dis)continuity, and change. What is the red thread running through these different notions and manifestations of linearity? Or does their multiplicity point to the boundless variety of possible trajectories and discontinuities already present within the one-dimensionality of the single line? Is every line a wandering away from another, or an extension of the line's innate errant potential, i...
1967 gilt in der Popgeschichte als Jahr des Umbruchs. Im »Summer of Love« wandelt sich Pop zu ein... more 1967 gilt in der Popgeschichte als Jahr des Umbruchs. Im »Summer of Love« wandelt sich Pop zu einer neuen Kunstform: Pink Floyd schaffen mit ihren psychedelischen Klängen einen völlig neuen Stil. Das berühmte Bananen-Album von The Velvet Underground & Nico entsteht als musikalisches Produkt in Andy Warhols Factory, und The Supremes und Aretha Franklin sorgen für den Durchbruch des schwarzen Pop. Bei dieser Diskussionsrunde über das so wirkungsreiche Jahr 1967 geht es um <em>Sgt. Pepper</em> von den Beatles, das Scheitern der Beach Boys, Janis Joplins legendären Auftritt in Monterey und viele andere bedeutende Musikereignisse des Jahres. Außerdem fragen sich die Diskutanten, was sonst noch in der Welt geschah – wie sich kulturelle und politische Entwicklungen wie Hippie-Bewegung, Studentenproteste und Civil Rights Movement in der Musik widerspiegeln und auf welchen Weg sich die Popmusik seitdem gemacht hat. Frank Witzel lebt als Schriftsteller und Musikhörer in Offenbach....
Waiting at the border, the government office, the hospital. Waiting one's turn, holding the l... more Waiting at the border, the government office, the hospital. Waiting one's turn, holding the line. Waiting for the end of the play, for a diagnosis, for sleep. Waiting for an answer, a visa, or a loved one. Waiting for something that will never come. Waiting is often conceived of as pointless void, idle or 'stolen' time, provoking shapeless boredom, or as ritualized demonstration of power, exercise of passivity – rarely, however, as deferral, productive break, an interstitial moment of contemplation and reflection. Nobody likes to wait, nobody likes to be kept waiting. Yet waiting is also understood to provide the most immediate, emblematic, albeit infuriating experience of time. Is it possible to say, conversely, that, as long as there is time, experience is marked, at least in part, by the curious suspension of waiting? 'Waiting' will explore the enervating and exhilarating aspects of waiting in the context of the ICI's current research focus ERRANS, in Time...
The ICI Berlin is celebrating its first decade: Since its founding in 2006 and with the help of n... more The ICI Berlin is celebrating its first decade: Since its founding in 2006 and with the help of nine 'generations' of altogether more than one hundred fellows, the Institute has pursued a series of interlocking, transdisciplinary research projects that have sought to disclose original aspects of 'cultural inquiry', not only unsettling and challenging hegemonic cultural formations, but also continually questioning and refocusing its own investigations. This sequence of ICI core projects has inspired an extraordinary spread of individual and collaborative ventures, many of which have turned into ICI events and publications but are quite impossible to represent or recall in a three-day conference. The anniversary celebration will instead present a unique and necessarily limited constellation of diverse topics characteristic of the Institute's interventions: Each of these themes, questions, and obsessions can be said to have played a decisive role at several juncture...
In the second decade of the fourteenth century, Dante wrote the <i>Monarchia</i>, a t... more In the second decade of the fourteenth century, Dante wrote the <i>Monarchia</i>, 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 <em>Monarchia</em>. 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 human...
What’s in a prefix? How to read a prefix as short as ‘re-’? Does ‘re-’ really signify? Can it poi... more What’s in a prefix? How to read a prefix as short as ‘re-’? Does ‘re-’ really signify? Can it point into a specific direction? Can it reverse? Can it become the shibboleth of a ‘postcritical’ reboot? At first glance transparent and directional, ‘re-’ complicates the linear and teleological models commonly accepted as structuring the relations between past, present, and future, opening onto errant temporalities.
On the concept of a 'humanité-une', see, for example, Lefort, 'La Nation élue et le rêve de l'emp... more On the concept of a 'humanité-une', see, for example, Lefort, 'La Nation élue et le rêve de l'empire universel', in L'Idée d'humanité. Données et Débats, actes du xxxiv e Colloque des intellectuels juifs de la langue française, ed. by Jean Halpérin and Georges Lévitte (Paris: Albin Michel, 1995), pp. 97-112 (p. 98). 7 Lefort, Writing, p. 142.
For the duration of the one hundred days of the documenta 6 in 1977, Joseph Beuys made honey flow... more For the duration of the one hundred days of the documenta 6 in 1977, Joseph Beuys made honey flow from this slightly awkward pit, the well of a destructive esprit d’escalier, this site of a sovereignty evacuated many times over. Beuys, that is, installed his fable of the bees at a purposefully vacuous palace where courtly culture had surrendered to the modern museum, but more specifically even, at the supplemental, feigned, then bombed-out site of popular sovereignty.
Errans: Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing, 2022
The principles of ERRANS are introduced by considering two radically different contexts: Within a... more The principles of ERRANS are introduced by considering two radically different contexts: Within academic publishing, the literary form of the edited collection is as common as it is denigrated and rarely reflected upon. The account being offered (within an edited collection) seeks to not only reinterpret the status of the genre, but argues in favor of a curatorial errancy within scholarly communication. Yet errancy has also become a crucial touchstone in management and leadership studies, whether as 'disruptive innovation' or 'VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) worlds', inviting a different consideration of the relationship between capitalism and its political and artistic critiques than the one offered by Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello — one which does not consider itself untouched by the errant logics it discerns in its 'subjects' .
The question of a (non)-relation of psychoanalysis and law requires a deeper analysis, in which... more The question of a (non)-relation of psychoanalysis and law requires a deeper analysis, in which their encounter becomes inescapable. The question of an absence of any guarantee is but a faint echo of the legal provision in effect in Germany from 1869 to 1939, allowing anyone to practice medicine without a license. By contrast, Freud’s book on lay analysis, but also some of Lacan’s considerations are marked by an explicit recourse to figures of juridical reflection, which can provide new material for the contestation of the limits imposed on psychoanalytic practices today, too.
When Immanuel Kant died in 1804, he left on his desk twelve fascicles of manuscript that he had b... more When Immanuel Kant died in 1804, he left on his desk twelve fascicles of manuscript that he had been working on since 1795, impeded by a progressive marasmus, until, "in December, 1803, he became incapable of signing his name."4 Soon after Kant's death, his survivors judged the manuscripts to be unfit for publication. As early as 1805 they became a public affair, when the periodical Der Freimiithige oder Ernst und Scherz demanded publication,5 and since then, the question whether and in what form Kant's latest writings should be published has been, and continues to be, passionately and polemically discussed. The manuscripts were lost, found,
In the last decade of his life, Siegfried Kracauer, now mostly known as a media theorist, began p... more In the last decade of his life, Siegfried Kracauer, now mostly known as a media theorist, began preparing a book on history. Unfinished at the time of his death, <i>History: The Last Things Before the Last</i> was published posthumously in 1969. This workshop will explore a concern that is arguably central to the book: the problem of historical time. For Kracauer, every conception of historical time has to confront what he calls its 'insoluble antinomy', the necessity to think the flow of time together with the shapes of time incommensurable to it. Over the course of our one-day workshop, we will discuss Kracauer's analysis of this antinomy and the challenge it poses to traditional historical categories such as the date, the period, and the transition between periods. Comprised of two parts, the workshop will start from a collective reading of excerpts from <i>History</i> in order to then consider its relation to other engagements with the 'ri...
Over the course of two decades, from 1995 to 2015, Giorgio Agamben published a series of nine boo... more Over the course of two decades, from 1995 to 2015, Giorgio Agamben published a series of nine books, not in sequence but conceived from the beginning as parts of a project sharing the title of its first volume, <em>Homo sacer</em>. These nine books have now been collected into a single volume edition in French (2016), English (2017), and Italian (2018), rendering visible the extent to which the project as a whole amounts to a radical revision of Western philosophy yet also enacted a painstaking self-revision in its course. With the entire trajectory of <i>Homo sacer </i>now evident in its completed arch and rearranged order, the symposium sets out to explore crucial concepts and issues at stake in the project and the new contours they reveal within the larger framework, while also interrogating the hidden spots in the work, unresolved points from which new researches will depart, as Agamben himself has incessantly done with his ever-growing meshwork of refere...
The tent represents an experimental and existential form of life and habitat, oscillating between... more The tent represents an experimental and existential form of life and habitat, oscillating between an always-possible departure and an often uncertain arrival. It is being associated with adventure and independence, but also with non-belonging, displacement, and being exposed. As a temporally finite accommodation and architecture, it can create refuge in the unlikeliest places, from the wilderness to urban wastelands. The tent's mobile construction is assembled from struts and ropes and covered with sheets or tarp. The skin of the tent works as a membrane, impermeable and permeable alike, which brings humans and environment into a relation to one another. Life in the tent provides transitory protection and comfort, but also offers the possibility to roam and escape a current life. Camping evokes ideas of freedom, nomadic existence, and a modest way of life. It is also associated with camping holidays, campfires, and horrible showers, yet also with thrill seekers and nature freaks...
1968 steht für Revolte, gesellschaftliche Erneuerung, intellektuelle Auseinandersetzungen, sexuel... more 1968 steht für Revolte, gesellschaftliche Erneuerung, intellektuelle Auseinandersetzungen, sexuelle Revolution und den Bruch mit einer autoritätsfixierten Elterngeneration. Eine Bewegung, die das heutige Verständnis von Gleichberechtigung, Toleranz und Meinungspluralismus entscheidend geprägt hat. Den einen gilt sie als Mythos und Erinnerungskonstrukt, anderen als Wegbereiter soziokultureller Transformationsprozesse, die die Demokratisierung vieler Lebensbereiche angestoßen hat. Welche Rolle spielt die 68er-Bewegung, die maßgeblich auch mit der Geschichte des Wagenbach Verlags verwoben ist, für die heutige politische und gesellschaftliche Situation? Warum steht die erkämpfte und unerschütterlich geglaubte Demokratie auf unsicherem Boden? Wieso bemächtigt sich die identitäre Rechte der Aktionsformen der APO? Warum ist Religion heute wieder so entscheidend, obwohl die 68er sie doch abgeschafft haben wollten? Und wo stehen Gleichberechtigung und Feminismus heute? Tom Koenigs studierte ...
Lines can evoke notions of form, contour, and trains of thought; they may indicate order or rando... more Lines can evoke notions of form, contour, and trains of thought; they may indicate order or randomness, continuity or division, give rise to complex meanings or shapeless chaos. Their 'breadthless length' (Euclid) serves as a foundation for geometry, the basis of alphabets and writing, the elementary component of visual representation; it provides the frame for musical notation, the basic unit of poetry and literature, the possibility of political division and segregation, and a fundamental resource for philosophical and historical reflections on the nature of movement, temporality, (dis)continuity, and change. What is the red thread running through these different notions and manifestations of linearity? Or does their multiplicity point to the boundless variety of possible trajectories and discontinuities already present within the one-dimensionality of the single line? Is every line a wandering away from another, or an extension of the line's innate errant potential, i...
1967 gilt in der Popgeschichte als Jahr des Umbruchs. Im »Summer of Love« wandelt sich Pop zu ein... more 1967 gilt in der Popgeschichte als Jahr des Umbruchs. Im »Summer of Love« wandelt sich Pop zu einer neuen Kunstform: Pink Floyd schaffen mit ihren psychedelischen Klängen einen völlig neuen Stil. Das berühmte Bananen-Album von The Velvet Underground & Nico entsteht als musikalisches Produkt in Andy Warhols Factory, und The Supremes und Aretha Franklin sorgen für den Durchbruch des schwarzen Pop. Bei dieser Diskussionsrunde über das so wirkungsreiche Jahr 1967 geht es um <em>Sgt. Pepper</em> von den Beatles, das Scheitern der Beach Boys, Janis Joplins legendären Auftritt in Monterey und viele andere bedeutende Musikereignisse des Jahres. Außerdem fragen sich die Diskutanten, was sonst noch in der Welt geschah – wie sich kulturelle und politische Entwicklungen wie Hippie-Bewegung, Studentenproteste und Civil Rights Movement in der Musik widerspiegeln und auf welchen Weg sich die Popmusik seitdem gemacht hat. Frank Witzel lebt als Schriftsteller und Musikhörer in Offenbach....
Waiting at the border, the government office, the hospital. Waiting one's turn, holding the l... more Waiting at the border, the government office, the hospital. Waiting one's turn, holding the line. Waiting for the end of the play, for a diagnosis, for sleep. Waiting for an answer, a visa, or a loved one. Waiting for something that will never come. Waiting is often conceived of as pointless void, idle or 'stolen' time, provoking shapeless boredom, or as ritualized demonstration of power, exercise of passivity – rarely, however, as deferral, productive break, an interstitial moment of contemplation and reflection. Nobody likes to wait, nobody likes to be kept waiting. Yet waiting is also understood to provide the most immediate, emblematic, albeit infuriating experience of time. Is it possible to say, conversely, that, as long as there is time, experience is marked, at least in part, by the curious suspension of waiting? 'Waiting' will explore the enervating and exhilarating aspects of waiting in the context of the ICI's current research focus ERRANS, in Time...
The ICI Berlin is celebrating its first decade: Since its founding in 2006 and with the help of n... more The ICI Berlin is celebrating its first decade: Since its founding in 2006 and with the help of nine 'generations' of altogether more than one hundred fellows, the Institute has pursued a series of interlocking, transdisciplinary research projects that have sought to disclose original aspects of 'cultural inquiry', not only unsettling and challenging hegemonic cultural formations, but also continually questioning and refocusing its own investigations. This sequence of ICI core projects has inspired an extraordinary spread of individual and collaborative ventures, many of which have turned into ICI events and publications but are quite impossible to represent or recall in a three-day conference. The anniversary celebration will instead present a unique and necessarily limited constellation of diverse topics characteristic of the Institute's interventions: Each of these themes, questions, and obsessions can be said to have played a decisive role at several juncture...
In the second decade of the fourteenth century, Dante wrote the <i>Monarchia</i>, a t... more In the second decade of the fourteenth century, Dante wrote the <i>Monarchia</i>, 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 <em>Monarchia</em>. 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 human...
What’s in a prefix? How to read a prefix as short as ‘re-’? Does ‘re-’ really signify? Can it poi... more What’s in a prefix? How to read a prefix as short as ‘re-’? Does ‘re-’ really signify? Can it point into a specific direction? Can it reverse? Can it become the shibboleth of a ‘postcritical’ reboot? At first glance transparent and directional, ‘re-’ complicates the linear and teleological models commonly accepted as structuring the relations between past, present, and future, opening onto errant temporalities.
On the concept of a 'humanité-une', see, for example, Lefort, 'La Nation élue et le rêve de l'emp... more On the concept of a 'humanité-une', see, for example, Lefort, 'La Nation élue et le rêve de l'empire universel', in L'Idée d'humanité. Données et Débats, actes du xxxiv e Colloque des intellectuels juifs de la langue française, ed. by Jean Halpérin and Georges Lévitte (Paris: Albin Michel, 1995), pp. 97-112 (p. 98). 7 Lefort, Writing, p. 142.
For the duration of the one hundred days of the documenta 6 in 1977, Joseph Beuys made honey flow... more For the duration of the one hundred days of the documenta 6 in 1977, Joseph Beuys made honey flow from this slightly awkward pit, the well of a destructive esprit d’escalier, this site of a sovereignty evacuated many times over. Beuys, that is, installed his fable of the bees at a purposefully vacuous palace where courtly culture had surrendered to the modern museum, but more specifically even, at the supplemental, feigned, then bombed-out site of popular sovereignty.
Errans: Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing, 2022
The principles of ERRANS are introduced by considering two radically different contexts: Within a... more The principles of ERRANS are introduced by considering two radically different contexts: Within academic publishing, the literary form of the edited collection is as common as it is denigrated and rarely reflected upon. The account being offered (within an edited collection) seeks to not only reinterpret the status of the genre, but argues in favor of a curatorial errancy within scholarly communication. Yet errancy has also become a crucial touchstone in management and leadership studies, whether as 'disruptive innovation' or 'VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) worlds', inviting a different consideration of the relationship between capitalism and its political and artistic critiques than the one offered by Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello — one which does not consider itself untouched by the errant logics it discerns in its 'subjects' .
Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads D... more 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.
In her extensive interpretive essay, Judith Revel submits Lefort’s encounter with Dante to a transformative mis/reading and shows the importance of Dante’s text for Lefort’s conception of political philosophy. She carefully reconstructs its radical legacy, all too frequently reduced to a postmarxist turn or even mistaken for an affirmation of liberal democracy.
The two essays are accompanied by a note from their translator, Jennifer Rushworth, and a preface by Christiane Frey.
What’s in a prefix? How to read a prefix as short as ‘re-’? Does ‘re-’ really signify? Can it poi... more What’s in a prefix? How to read a prefix as short as ‘re-’? Does ‘re-’ really signify? Can it point into a specific direction? Can it reverse? Can it become the shibboleth of a ‘postcritical’ reboot? At first glance transparent and directional, ‘re-’ complicates the linear and teleological models commonly accepted as structuring the relations between past, present, and future, opening onto errant temporalities.
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In her extensive interpretive essay, Judith Revel submits Lefort’s encounter with Dante to a transformative mis/reading and shows the importance of Dante’s text for Lefort’s conception of political philosophy. She carefully reconstructs its radical legacy, all too frequently reduced to a postmarxist turn or even mistaken for an affirmation of liberal democracy.
The two essays are accompanied by a note from their translator, Jennifer Rushworth, and a preface by Christiane Frey.
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