Dictatorship : from the origin of the modern concept of sovereignty to proletarian class struggle / Carl Schmitt.

Cambridge : Polity Press, 2014.

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Dictatorship.

War and emergency powers.

Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933.

1. Commissary dictatorship and state theory

2. The practice of Royal Commissars until the eighteenth century

3. The transition to sovereign dictatorship in eighteenth century state theory

4. The concept of sovereign dictatorship

5. The custom of People's Commissars during the French Revolution

6. Dictatorship in contemporary law and order : the state of siege.

'Dictatorship' is Carl Schmitt's most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and the power of the Reichsprasident in declaring it.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the German by Michael Hoelzl and Graham Ward.

9780745646480

xlv, 314 p. ; 23 cm