Dialogues on Power and Space

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8868-8
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Written in the early stages of the Cold War by one of the most controversial political and legal thinkers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt?s two short dialogues on power and space bring together several dimensions of his work in new ways. The dialogues renew Schmitt?s engagement with the questions of political power and geo-politics that had been a persistent concern throughout his intellectual life. As a basis on which to think through the historical role of human agency in relation to power and its new geographies, the dialogues condense and rework key concepts in Schmitt?s political theory during a transitional period between his Weimar and fascist years to the post-war writings.

In this book, Schmitt develops a new ?dialectics? of modern power and an original understanding of the global spatial transformations of the Cold War period. Equally important, the dialogues anticipate the debates on the new geo-political possibilities and threats related to cosmic spaces, overpowering technological advances, and the existential predicament of the human in an increasingly multipolar world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmitt, Carl

Finchelstein, Federico

Kalyvas, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
Editors? Introduction
Translator?s Note and Acknowledgments
Carl Schmitt?s Prologue to the 1962 Spanish Edition (1961/1962)
Dialogue on Power and Access to the Holder of Power
Dialogue on New Space
Works Consulted
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential political theorists of the twentieth century. His many works published in English include The Concept of the Political, Political Theology, Writings on War and On Dictatorship.

Edited, with an introduction, by Andreas Kalyvas and Federico Finchelstein