The challenge of the exception : an introduction to the political ideas of Carl Schmitt between 1921 and 1936
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The challenge of the exception : an introduction to the political ideas of Carl Schmitt between 1921 and 1936
（Contributions in political science, no. 248）
Greenwood Press, 1989
2nd ed., with a new introd
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The Challenge of the Exception is the key that unlocked the ideas of Carl Schmitt, a leading political theorist and jurist who influenced the thoughts of, among others, Hannah Arendt, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Otto Kirchheimer, Hans Morgenthau, Franz Neumann, and Leo Strauss. Professor Schwab clearly articulates Schmitt's key concepts and relates their centrality to politics and the state, to the political theory of liberalism, democracy and authoritarianism, and to international relations. When Schwab treats Schmitt's interpretations of constitutional questions, for example, he shows how political theory in Germany is inextricably linked with constitutional law, legal theory, and the country's history.
Not content to merely deal with Schmitt's profound contributions to twentieth-century thought, Schwab devotes considerable space to the unconscionable compromises that he made with the Third Reich. This, however, failed to help him become the political and legal theorist of Hitler's Germany. Schwab shows how the new Schmitt was suspect from the beginning and, by 1936, Schmitt the hunter had become Schmitt the hunted. Schwab's presentation of the multifaceted Carl Schmitt exposes the reader to a truly interdisciplinary excursion into the humanities and social sciences.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition
Preface
Introduction
Schmitt and the Weimar Constitution: 1921-1933
The Meaning of Dictatorship
The Meaning of Sovereignty
The Meaning of Democracy and Liberalism
The Meaning of the Presidial System
Hitler Conquers Weimar
Schmitt and National Socialism: 1933-1936
State, Movement, People
Concrete-Order Thinking
Army, Party, State
Theology, Defeat, and the Benito Cereno Myth
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index
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