The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition - Couverture souple

Schmitt, Carl; Strong, Tracy B.; Strauss, Leo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226738922 ISBN 13 : 9780226738925

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2007

Synopsis

In 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was a legal theorist, political philosopher, and the author of Legality and Legitimacy, On the Three Types of Juristic Thought, Political Romanticism, Nomos of the Earth, Roman Catholicism and Political Form, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, and The Concept of the Political, the last available from the University of Chicago Press.

Tracy B. Strong is professor of political theory and philosophy at the University of Southampton, UK, and distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is former editor of Political Theory and the author or editor of many books, including most recently, Politics without Vision.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0226738922
• ISBN 13: 9780226738925
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible