Winner, 1994, of the Spitz Prize sponsored by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought
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"In this well-written, brilliantly researched and provocative work, Bill Scheuerman has analyzed a little-known chapter of twentieth-century intellectual history: the encounter between Carl Schmitt, named the jurist of the Third Reich, and two members of the Frankfurt School: Otto Kirchheimer and Franz Neumann... This will be compelling and captivating reading for anyone interested in continental social and political thought in the twentieth century." --Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University
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William E. Scheuerman is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
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This review is from: Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) (Paperback)
This is a meticulously researched exposition of the theoretical development of two largely unheralded (at least in America) political theorists, Otto Kirchheimer and Franz Neumann. Responding to past influences such as Locke, Rousseau, Weber and even Schmitt, these two contemporaries made signficant strides in the development of a critical democratic theory that would be responsive to the concerns of a (post)modern age. This book serves as an excellent introduction to their work, and as such truly a must-read for anyone grappling with the challenges of contemporary democracy.
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Evidence mounts that the liberal rule of law may be destined to disintegrate under the conditions of the modern welfare state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
deformalized law, legal deformalization, liberal general law, parliamentary legality, modern formal law, welfare state law, liberal legal norm, decisionist theory, homogeneous democracy, vague legal standards, rational legality, general legal norms, political existentialism, legal regularity, semantic generality, blanket clauses, volitional freedom, fascist law, legal rationalization, liberal legal order, liberal parliamentarism, magic wall, contemporary welfare state, value homogeneity, union autonomy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carl Schmitt, Weimar Constitution, Franz Neumann, Weimar Republic, The Permanent State of Emergency, Nazi Germany, Otto Kirchheimer, United States, Max Weber, Plebiscitary Dictatorship, New Deal, The Unfinished Agenda of Rational Law, Totalitarian Concept of the Political, Hermann Heller, Karl Renner, Weimar Germany, Western Europe, The Authoritarian State, World War, Herbert Marcuse, Political Theology, Second International, Structure of Political Compromise New!
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Evidence mounts that the liberal rule of law may be destined to disintegrate under the conditions of the modern welfare state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
deformalized law, legal deformalization, liberal general law, parliamentary legality, modern formal law, welfare state law, liberal legal norm, decisionist theory, homogeneous democracy, vague legal standards, rational legality, general legal norms, political existentialism, legal regularity, semantic generality, blanket clauses, volitional freedom, fascist law, legal rationalization, liberal legal order, liberal parliamentarism, magic wall, contemporary welfare state, value homogeneity, union autonomy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carl Schmitt, Weimar Constitution, Franz Neumann, Weimar Republic, The Permanent State of Emergency, Nazi Germany, Otto Kirchheimer, United States, Max Weber, Plebiscitary Dictatorship, New Deal, The Unfinished Agenda of Rational Law, Totalitarian Concept of the Political, Hermann Heller, Karl Renner, Weimar Germany, Western Europe, The Authoritarian State, World War, Herbert Marcuse, Political Theology, Second International, Structure of Political Compromise New!
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- The Politics of Regulation by James Q. Wilson on 4 pages
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- Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Modern European Philosophy) by John P. McCormick on 5 pages
- Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in Weimar by David Dyzenhaus on page 4, page 6, and Back Matter
- Legality and Legitimacy by Carl Schmitt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism by David Dyzenhaus on page 244, and Back Matter
- Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law: The Theory and Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism by Peter C. Caldwell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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