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Carl Schmitt: Law as Politics, Ideology and Strategic Myth book cover

1st Edition

Carl Schmitt Law as Politics, Ideology and Strategic Myth

By Michael Salter Copyright 2012
312 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

312 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

312 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish
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There continues to be a remarkable revival in academic interest in Carl Schmitt's thought within politics　and social theory but this is the first book to address his thought from an explicitly legal theoretical perspective. Transcending the prevailing one-sided and purely historical focus on Schmitt’s significance for debates that took place in the Weimar Republic 1919-1933, this book addresses... Read more

Part 1: Introduction: Up Against Carl Schmitt ; Chapter One: An Afterlife For Carl Schmitt?; Chapter Two: On Politics, Law And Ideology; Part 2: Introduction; Chapter Three: Mobilising Direct Political Action: Sorel, Myths And Counter-Myths; Chapter Four: Myths Of Parliamentarism; Chapter Five: Leviathan: A Political Myth Misfired?; Chapter Six: Hamlet As An Instructive Prototype Of A Political Myth?; Chapter Seven: Political Myths Underpinning Democracy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Biography

Michael Salter has held academic posts at the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Ulster, Lancaster and Central Lancashire. His previous books include Hegel and Law (ed., 1993), Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg, (2007) and US Intelligence, the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials (2 vols. 2009)

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