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Dictatorship

Dictatorship

Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmittâ‚¬s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work.

Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and the power of the ReichsprÂ¤sident in declaring it. Dictatorship, Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutional law and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of a so-called dictator.

Dictatorship is an essential book for understanding the work of Carl Schmitt and a major contribution to the modern theory of a democratic, constitutional state. And despite being written in the early part of the twentieth century, it speaks with remarkable prescience to our contemporary political concerns.
Country USA
Brand Polity
Manufacturer Polity
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780745646480
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780745646480
ReleaseDate 2014-01-01

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