Dante’s Modernity

Claude Lefort’s ‘Dante’s Modernity’ presents a detailed and highly original interpretation of Dante’s Monarchia. Lefort casts Dante as the first political thinker with a concept of humanity defined as the whole of the human race, the first to imagine a universal society in political terms, and the first to reveal the formative role of force, of wars and division in the advent of such a political unity. Tracing the career of Dante’s innovations in the political thought and praxis of the succeeding centuries, Lefort then shows how what is ‘new’ in Dante cannot be separated from its later avatars — from the varied realizations, distortions, and misapplications it would inspire at later historical junctures. Any contemporary realization of the potential inherent in Dante’s innovative idea of sovereignty would require the project of ‘disentangling’ the links between universalism, imperialism, and nationalism that have been instituted in its name

Structure and relaxation processes of an anisotropic molecular fluid confined into 1D nanochannels

Structural order parameters of a smectic liquid crystal confined into the columnar form of porous silicon are studied using neutron scattering and optical spectroscopic techniques. It is shown that both the translational and orientational anisotropic properties of the confined phase strongly couple to the one-dimensional character of the porous silicon matrix. The influence of this confinement induced anisotropic local structure on the molecular reorientations occuring in the picosecond timescale is discussed

El debate Lefort-Castoriadis: Organización y partido. Contribución a una discusión

Interveción de Lefort sobre la dirección revolucionari

The Question of Democracy

Autor potiče obnovu političke filozofije postavljajući pitanje što znači ponovno misliti politički u naše doba. Pri tome nastoji preispitati neke od značajki pojma demokracije koja dolazi do do novog izražaja u odnosu prema totalitarizmu i nemoguće ju je svesti na institucionalni sustav. Kritički se osvrćući na radove Tocquevillea, koji je za razliku od većine svojih suvremenika demokraciju promatrao kao formu društva, autor zaključuje da se demokracija pokazuje kao povijesna društvena kategorija, par excellence, društva koje u svom obliku prihvaća i zadržava neodredivost, u značajnoj suprotnosti prema totalitarizmu koji se, izgrađujući se pod parolom stvaranja novog čovjeka, u stvarnosti organizira protiv te neodredivosti, pa teži sačuvati pravila svoje organizacije i svog razvoja te se, potajno, u suvremenom svijetu iskazuje kao bezpovijesno društvo.The author pleads for a renewal of political philosophy by asking what it means again to think politically in our time. He also tries to re-examine some characteristic of the concept of democracy which renews its weight in relationship to totalitarianism and cannot be reduced to an institutional system. After looking critically upon the works of Tocqueville who - contrary to most of his contemporaries • saw democracy as a form of government, the author comes to the conclusion that democracy appears to be a historical social category par exellence, of a society that in its form accepts and maintains indefinability. This is in significant contrast to totalitarianism which, establishing itself with the slogan of building the new man, in fact acts against this indefinability and tries to conserve the rules of its own organization. Thus, in the contemporary world, totalitarianism manifests itself secretely as a society without history

O direito internacional, os direitos do homem e a ação política

This paper examines the relationship between human rights, international rights and geopolitical action. Based on an analysis of the present conflicts in Bosnia, the author examines the possibility of distinguishing between human rights and international rights and the consequences of this distinction from the point of view of state sovereignty.o artigo procura examinar as relações entre os direitos humanos, o direito internacional e a ação geopolítica. Partindo de uma análise dos atuais conflitos na Bósnia, examina se é possível distinguir entre direitos do homem e o direito internacional, quais as conseqüências desta distinção do ponto de vista da questão da soberania dos estados

Sade: budoar in polis

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Politisches Denken im Angesicht der Menschenrechte

Die Frage, die wir hier stellen, ist nicht rein theoretischer Natur. Weitgehend wurde sie von einer Debatte angeregt, die sich seit einigen Jahren um den Begriff der Menschenrechte entfacht hat – einen Begriff, der entweder in manchen Kreisen (sagen wir: der extremen Linken) völlig diskreditiert war oder als völlig banal galt. Über die Gründe, die den Anstoß zu dieser Debatte gaben, brauchen wir uns hier nicht zu verbreiten: Die Entdeckung, dass unter dem Anschein des Sozialismus in der Sowje..

François Igersheim : hommage à l’historien de l’Alsace

François Igersheim a été dix ans rédacteur en chef de la Revue d’Alsace, la revue de la collectivité historienne associative et universitaire de l’Alsace, de 2002 à 2012. Il a passé la main pour 2013. Il a fêté cette année 2015, son 75e anniversaire. À cette occasion, la Revue d’Alsace souhaitait rendre hommage à son ancien rédacteur en chef, en retraçant son parcours, et en publiant sa riche bibliographie. François Igersheim François Igersheim est né le 12 juillet 1940 à Port Harcourt au Ni..