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The Superhuman Origins of Human Dignity: Kantorowicz’s Dante

Heron, Nicholas

Journal of the history of ideas, 2021, Vol.82 (3), p.427-452 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

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  • Título:
    The Superhuman Origins of Human Dignity: Kantorowicz’s Dante
  • Autor: Heron, Nicholas
  • Assuntos: Allusion ; Archetypes (Psychology) ; Biographies ; Catholics ; Enlightenment ; Exegesis & hermeneutics ; German language ; Heroism & heroes ; Historiography ; History of medicine and histology ; Human dignity ; Humanism ; Literary devices ; Literary influences ; Literary translation ; Middle Ages ; Modernity ; Personality ; Philosophers ; Politics ; Popes ; Public speaking ; Purging ; Repair ; Sovereignty ; Subtitles & subtitling ; Theology
  • É parte de: Journal of the history of ideas, 2021, Vol.82 (3), p.427-452
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  • Descrição: When Princeton University Press approved The King's Two Bodies for publication in 1953, the manuscript was not yet complete.1 Although the publisher's readers had voiced reservations regarding the early chapter on Shakespeare, Ernst Kantorowicz remained intent on rounding out his study with an additional literary set piece. Against those accounts that made Kantorowicz's youthful devotion to the cult around Stefan George the core from which even his specialized later studies radiated, Giesey emphasized the humanist character of his most deep-seated commitments, even at the cost of downplaying politically dubious aspects of the early work.6 It was no coincidence that the Frederick biography was admired at the highest echelons of the Nazi party, despite its author's Jewish heritage.7 Recent scholarship has made the Dante chapter central to purging Kantorowicz's text of a different taint: the association with the conservative German jurist Carl Schmitt, occasioned by the subtitle's reference to "politi2 cal theology. "8 Despite the fact that Schmitt's name appears nowhere in Kantorowicz's oeuvre,9 the Dante chapter has been described as "inverting," "overtaking," and "undermining" Schmitt's purportedly authoritarian notion, as if Kantorowicz had invoked this term only to strike it out in the book's final act.10 But while the political-theological positions staked out in Weimar Germany (including by Kantorowicz in Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite) were many and varied-so much so that another prominent emigré could later characterize its intellectual mood in terms of a "theologicopolitical predicament"11-it remains unclear what meaning, if any, this interpretation could have had when The King's Two Bodies was published in 1957, either for Kantorowicz's readers or for himself. A variant on the universal history sanctioned by Enlightenment philosophers, re-enlightenment history shares in its progressive and teleological character, but with the important caveat that this narrative has been interrupted and stands in need of repair.14 To Catholics such as Jacques Maritain, who lectured regularly in North America in the 1930s, the fault line lay in the abdication of the organicist, integralist vision of the human person which had prevailed in the Middle Ages.15 For him, the writer who initiated this process had been Dante, when, in specifying "two ends" for humankind, he divided natural man from his supernatural double.16 But the connection could nonetheless be restored, on condition of adopting a humanism distinct from its conventional understanding.
  • Editor: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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