Law as politics : Carl Schmitt's critique of liberalism / edited by David Dyzenhaus ; foreword by Ronald Beiner.

Durham, [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1998.

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Schmitt, Carl, -- 1888-1985.

Political science -- History -- Germany.

Introduction: Why Carl Schmitt? / David Dyzenhaus

Carl Schmitt's critique of liberalism: systematic reconstruction and countercriticism / Heiner Bielefeldt

The concept of the political: a key to understanding Carl Schmitt's Constitutional Theory / Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde

From legitimacy to dictatorship - and back again: Leo Strauss's critique of the anti-liberalism of Carl Schmitt / Robert Howse

Hostis not inimicus: toward a theory of the public in the work of Carl Schmitt / Ellen Kennedy

Pluralism and the crisis of parliamentary democracy / Dominique Leydet

Liberalism as a metaphysical system: the methodological structure of Carl Schmitt's Critique of Political Rationalism / Reinhard Mehring

Carl Schmitt and the paradox of liberal democracy / Chantal Mouffe

Carl Schmitt on sovereignty and constituent power / Renato Cristi

The 1933 break in Carl Schmitt's theory / Ingeborg Maus

The dilemmas of dictatorship: Carl Schmitt and constitutional emergency powers / John P. McCormick

Revolutions and constitutions: Hannah Arendt's challenge to Carl Schmitt / William E. Scheuerman

Carl Schmitt's internal critique of liberal consitutionalism: Verfassungslehre as a response to the Wiemar state crisis / Jeffrey Seitzer.

"The essays collected here were first published in a special issue of the Canadian journal of law and jurisprudence [vol. 10, no. I (1997)]"

Includes index.

0822322447

ix, 318 p.