Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory

Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory
ISBN-10
0313272093
ISBN-13
9780313272097
Series
Carl Schmitt
Category
Political Science
Pages
152
Language
English
Published
1990-01-01
Publisher
Praeger Pub Text
Author
Paul Gottfried

Description

Gottfried looks at Schmitt as a critic of modern liberalism and as a defender of the national state who carefully examined Western historical and political traditions. Challenging the view that Schmitt was a mere polemicist who set out to subvert "German Democracy", Gottfried's work argues instead, that Schmitt criticized liberal democracy from a highly liberal reflective position that combined analytical depth with staggering erudition. This new source also provides a useful bibliography on secondary literature dealing with Carl Schmitt's work.

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