Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

Name: Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
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ISBN: 9780262691260

ISBN-10: 0262691264

ISBN-13: 9780262691260

Edition: 1988

Authors: Carl Schmitt, Ellen Kennedy, Thomas McCarthy

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Described both as "the Hobbes of our age" and as "the philosophical godfather of Nazism," Carl Schmitt was a brilliant and controversial political theorist whose doctrine of political leadership and critique of liberal democratic ideals distinguish him as one of the most original contributors to modern political theory. The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of representative democracy. First published in 1923, it has often been viewed as an attempt to destroy parliamentarism; in fact, it was Schmitt's attempt to defend the Weimar constitution. The introduction to this new translation places the book in proper historical context and…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/22/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.39" wide x 7.99" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Series Editor's Foreword


A Note on the Text and Translation


Introduction: Carl Schmitt's Parlamentarismus in Its Historical Context



Preface to the Second Edition (1926): On the Contradiction between Parliamentarism and Democracy


Introduction to the First Edition (1923)



Democracy and Parliamentarism


(Standard conceptions of identity in democratic thought and the identities that have replaced them in political reality)



The Principles of Parliamentarism


(Openness and discussion division and balance of powers the concept of law in true parliamentarism the relative rationalism of parliamentary theory)



Dictatorship in Marxist Thought


(Dictatorship and dialectics the metaphysical proof of Marxism rationalism and irrationalism in the dictatorship of the proletariat)



Irrationalist Theories of the Direct Use of Force


(Georges Sorel's theory of myth the mythical image of the bourgeois class struggle and national myths in Bolshevism and Fascism)


Appendix: On the Ideology of Parliamentarism (1925)



Notes


Bibliography to the 1926 Edition


Bibliographical Note


Index