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This book is ideal for students and scholars of politics, law, and political philosophy, particularly those interested in constitutional theory, emergency powers, and the complexities of democratic governance.
* Carl Schmitt is widely recognized as one of the most important political theorists of the 20th century. This is the only remaining work by Carl Schmitt which has not yet been translated into English.
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Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt’s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work.
Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and the power of the Reichspräsident in declaring it. Dictatorship, Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutional law and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of a so-called dictator.
Dictatorship is an essential book for understanding the work of Carl Schmitt and a major contribution to the modern theory of a democratic, constitutional state. Despite being written in the early part of the twentieth century, it speaks with remarkable prescience to our contemporary political concerns.
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George Schwab calls it a key work for understanding varieties of dictatorship, while John P. McCormick praises it as the first dedicated study of emergency powers and a prescient resource for political theory and constitutional law.
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ISBN: 9780745646480
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 145.0mm
Height: 224.0mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential political theorists of the twentieth century.
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