Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

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University of Chicago Press, 2010 M05 14 - 70 páginas

The distinctive theory of sovereignty from one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century.

Translated and with an introduction by George Schwab

Foreword by Tracy B. Strong

Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Carl Schmitt argues in Political Theology that legal order ultimately rests upon the decisions of the sovereign. Focusing on the relationships among political leadership, the norms of the legal order, and the state of political emergency, he asserts that only the sovereign can meet the needs of an "exceptional" time and transcend legal order so that order can then be reestablished. Convinced that the state is governed by the ever-present possibility of conflict, Schmitt theorizes that the state exists only to maintain its integrity in order to ensure order and stability. Suggesting that all concepts of modern political thought are secularized theological concepts, Schmitt concludes Political Theology with a critique of liberalism and its attempt to depoliticize political thought by avoiding fundamental political decisions.

 

Contenido

Foreword
vii
Introduction
xxxvii
Preface to the Second Edition 1934
1
1 Definition of Sovereignty
5
2 The Problem of Sovereignty as the Problem of the Legal Form and of the Decision
16
3 Political Theology
36
4 On the Counterrevolutionary Philosophy of the State de Maistre Bonald Donoso Cortes
53
Index
67
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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.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloPolitical Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
AutorCarl Schmitt
Traducido porGeorge Schwab
ColaboradorTracy B. Strong
Edicióníntegra
EditorUniversity of Chicago Press, 2010
ISBN0226738906, 9780226738901
Largo70 páginas
  
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