Political Theology – Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

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By Tracy B. Strong and Carl Schmitt and George Schwab

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Written during the unrest of the early Weimar Republic, Political Theology by Carl Schmitt offers a profound theory of sovereignty that shaped twentieth-century political thought. Schmitt examines the interplay between political leadership, legal norms, and states of emergency, arguing that the sovereign's decisions underpin legal order, especially in exceptional circumstances where normal laws must be transcended to restore order. He insists that the state’s primary aim is to maintain stability amid potential conflict and critiques liberalism for its depoliticisation of essential political decisions. This edition includes key insights from Tracy B. Strong and George Schwab.
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Recommended for students and scholars of political philosophy, law, and history seeking a critical exploration of sovereignty and the limits of liberalism in modern political theory.

Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, this book develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Schmitt concludes this book with a critique of liberalism.

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Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century.

Focusing on the relationships among political leadership, the norms of the legal order, and the state of political emergency, Schmitt argues in Political Theology that legal order ultimately rests upon the decisions of the sovereign. According to Schmitt, 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.

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“Political Theology is about the nature, and thus about the prerogatives, of sovereign political authority in the West.... It is perhaps the piece that best serves as an introduction to Schmitt's thought.” – from the Foreword by Tracy B. Strong

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226738895

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 January 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 188g

Pages: 116

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Carl Schmitt Education & Reference George Schwab Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Politics & Current Affairs Tracy B. Strong

About the Author

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.