Carl Schmitt: State and Society - Couverture souple

Rasch, William

 
9781786611703: Carl Schmitt: State and Society
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1786611708 ISBN 13 : 9781786611703
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019

Synopsis

This important new book places Carl Schmitt's critique of liberal political theory in a broader historical context than is usually done. His belief in the centrality of the European state since the seventeenth century derives from various sources, including medieval (Scholastic) theology and nineteenth century (post-Hegelian) social and political theory. Schmitt's famed 'political theology' aims at justifying the necessity of a strong secular state as the safeguard of a political community against the encroachment of legally protected interest groups that shield themselves behind pre-political rights. William Rasch neither condemns nor champions Schmitt's various attacks on liberalism, but does insist that the tension between 'society' as the realm of individual rights to pursue private pleasures and the 'state' as the placeholder for something traditionally called the common good is a conundrum that is as important now as it was during the Weimar era in Germany. Reappraisal of some of the pillars of liberal dogma are as much in order as are fears of their demise.

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À propos de l?auteur

William Rasch is Professor of Germanic Studies at Indiana University. He has published extensively on the German intellectual tradition - philosophy, social theory, political theory - concentrating on the work of Niklas Luhmann, Carl Schmitt, and aspects of German Idealism. He is the author of Sovereignty and its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political (2004) and Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation (2000), as well as editor of several volumes.

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Éditeur
Rowman & Littlefield International
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1786611708
ISBN 13 
9781786611703
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
207
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9781786611697: Carl Schmitt: State and Society

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1786611694 ISBN 13 :  9781786611697
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2019
Couverture rigide