Kennedy Constitutional Failure

Carl Schmitt in Weimar
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8557-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

The author's argument that Carl Schmitt's critique of Weimar Republic liberalism cannot be countered by reforming liberalism is also a contribution to current political theory and an analysis of contemporary liberalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kennedy, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. In the Dark Years: 1933–1945 11

2. The Sovereign Moment: Sources of Schmitt’s Theory of tIntroduction 1
he State 38

3. Norm and Exception: Carl Schmitt’s Concept of Sovereignty 54

4. The Political and Its Theory 92

5. Constitutional Theory 119

6. Constitutional Failure 154

Afterword 184

Notes 189

Bibliographic Note 237

Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen Kennedy is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Among her books are The Bundesbank: Germany’s Central Bank in the International Monetary System; Freedom and the Open Society: Henri Bergson’s Contribution to Political Philosophy; and the English translation of Carl Schmitt’s Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy.