Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago. Thursday, October 22, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT)
Chicago, IL. "Dante and the Limits of the Law", a book presentation by Professor Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago

with the participation of Emanuele Coccia, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
"Dante and the Limits of the Law" (University of Chicago Press, 2013) is the first comprehensive study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by elaborate laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards. Steinberg makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly-structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to it, introducing Dante to crucial current debates about literature's relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty.

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