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While antiliberal legal theorist Carl Schmitt has long been considered by
Europeans to be one of this century's most significant political philosophers,
recent challenges to the fundamental values of liberal democracies have made
Schmitt's writings an unavoidable subject of debate in North America as well.
In an effort to advance our understanding not only of Schmitt but of current
problems of liberal democracy, David Dyzenhaus presents translations of classic
German essays on Schmitt alongside more recent writings by distinguished
political theorists and jurists. Neither a defence of nor an attack on Schmitt,
this book offers the first balanced response to his powerful critique of
liberalism. One of the major players in the 1920s debates, an outspoken critic of the
Versailles Treaty and the Weimar Constitution, and a member of the Nazi party
who provided juridical respectability to Hitler's policies, Schmitt contended
that people are a polity only to the extend that they share common enemies. He
saw the liberal notion of a peaceful world of universal citizens as a sheer
impossibility and attributed the problems of weimar to liberalism and its
inability to cope with pluralism and political conflict. In the decade since
his death, Schmitt's writings have been taken up by both the right and the left
and scholars differ greatly in their evaluation of Schmitt's ideas. This book
thematically organises in one volume the varying engagements and confrontations
with Schmitt's work and allows scholars to acknowledge - and therefore be in a
better position to negotiate - an important paradox inscribed in the very
nature of liberal democracy. "Law as Politics" will interest political philosophers, legal theorists,
historians, and anyone interested in Schmitt's relevance to current discussions
of liberalism. Carl Schmitt is considered to be one of the 20th century's most significant
political philosophers. In an effort to advance our understanding not only of
Schmitt but of existing problems of liberal democracy, this text presents
translations of Schmitt's work and the work of other theorists.
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