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William Rasch - Carl Schmitt, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Carl Schmitt

State and Society

Av William Rasch

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-07-26
  • Mått: 153 x 219 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 318 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 207
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781786611703
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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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Rasch (Germanic studies, Indiana Univ.) is an expert on the writings of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) and German idealism. Schmitt was an influential member of the Nazi Party in Germany, and he wrote extensively on how to effectively wield power within and between nation-states and societies. Schmitt’s writings focus on the analysis of complex concepts such as autocracy, totalitarianism, liberalism, democracy, and populism. Rasch divides the book into two parts—"Political Theology of the Strong State" and "State versus Society"—and he concludes with a ten-page coda. . . the book will be useful for those doing advanced work in 20th-century German political philosophy.Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

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