| Description |
1 online resource (xliii, 166 pages) |
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Duke backfile |
| Contents |
The legislative state and the concept of law -- Legality and the equal chance for achieving political power -- The extraordinary lawgiver ratione materiae : the second principal part of the Weimar constitution as a second constitution -- The extraordinary lawgiver ratione supremitatis : actual meaning-plebiscitary legitimacy instead of legislative state legality -- The extraordinary lawgiver ratione necessitatis : actual meaning-the administrative state measure displaces the parliamentary legislative state statute |
| Summary |
Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. His incisive criticisms of Enlightenment political thought and liberal political practice remain as shocking and significant today as when they first appeared in Weimar Germany. Unavailable in English until now, Legality and Legitimacy was composed in 1932, in the midst of the crisis that would lead to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and only a matter of months before Schmitt's collaboration with the Nazis. In this important work, Schmitt questions the political viability o |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-163) and index |
| Subject |
Legitimacy of governments -- Germany
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Legislative power -- Germany
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Rule of law -- Germany
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LAW / Essays
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Legislative power
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Legitimacy of governments
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Rule of law
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Germany
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Seitzer, Jeffrey
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Duke University Press.
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| LC no. |
2003022709 |
| ISBN |
9780822385769 |
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0822385767 |
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0822331616 |
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9780822331612 |
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0822331748 |
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9780822331742 |
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