Political Theology Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

Name: Political Theology Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
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ISBN: 9780226738895

ISBN-10: 0226738892

ISBN-13: 9780226738895

Edition: 2005

Authors: Carl Schmitt, George Schwab, Tracy B. Strong

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Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationships among political leadership, the norms of the legal order, and the state of political emergency, Schmitt argues in Political Theology that legal order ultimately rests upon the decisions of the sovereign. According to Schmitt, only the sovereign can meet the needs of an "exceptional" time and transcend legal order so that order can then be reestablished. Convinced that the state is…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 116
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



Preface to the Second Edition (1934)



Definition of Sovereignty



The Problem of Sovereignty as the Problem of the Legal Form and of the Decision



Political Theology