<b><i>The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy</i> offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representative democracy.</b><p>Described both as "the Hobbes of our age" and as "the philosophical godfather of Nazism," Carl Schmitt was a brilliant and controversial political theorist whose doctrine of political leadership and critique of liberal democratic ideals distinguish him as one of the most original contributors to modern political theory. <i>The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy</i> offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representative democracy. First published in 1923, it has often been viewed as an attempt to destroy parliamentarism; in fact, it was Schmitt''s attempt to defend the Weimar constitution. The introduction to this new translation places the book in proper historical context and provides a useful guide to several aspects of Weimar political culture. <i>The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy</i> is included in the series Studies in Contemporary
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Now available in English for the first time, <i>Dictatorship</i> is Carl Schmitt¿s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. <br/><br/> Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War,...
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<p><i>Writings on War</i> collects three of Carl Schmitt''s most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: <i>The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War</i>, <i>The...
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