The Concept of the PoliticalIn this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism’s basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared. George Schwab’s introduction to his translation of the 1932 German edition highlights Schmitt’s intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state. In addition to analysis by Leo Strauss and a foreword by Tracy B. Strong placing Schmitt’s work into contemporary context, this expanded edition also includes a translation of Schmitt’s 1929 lecture “The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations,” which the author himself added to the 1932 edition of the book. An essential update on a modern classic, The Concept of the Political, Expanded Edition belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in political theory or philosophy. |
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... facts.9 If a definition of an important thinker is to have a manifold of supporters and detractors,10 the scholars I have cited clearly show Schmitt a thinker to be taken seriously. This is new. Entries in a standard reference work, The ...
... fact that he sits at the intersection of three central questions which any contem- porary political theorist must consider . The first is the relation between liberalism and democracy . The second is the relation be- tween politics and ...
... fact that it is , to what Heidegger would have called its Dasein . ( It should be noted that the sovereign is not like God : there is no " Sovereign . " Rather , sovereign acts have the quality of referring only to them- selves , as ...
... fact also noted by Ellen Kennedy , in Telos 73 , p . 66 ; and by Steven Lukes ( in critique of Habermas ) , “ Of Gods and Demons , " in David Held and John B. Thompson , Habermas : Critical Debates ( London : Macmillan , 1982 ) , also ...
... fact , that it is this aspect which led the SS journal Das Schwarze Korps to accuse Schmitt of neo - Hegelianism.37 nality of politics , one will likely be overtaken by. But only the form is Hegelian . There are two elements in Schmitt's ...
Contents
Introduction by George Schwab | 3 |
Translators Note to the 1976 Edition | 17 |
The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt | 19 |
The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations 1929 by Carl Schmitt | 80 |
Notes on Carl Schmitt The Concept of the Political by Leo Strauss | 97 |
Index of Names | 123 |