William Rasch

Carl Schmitt

State and Society

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Produktbeschreibung

William Rasch offers a reading of Carl Schmitt that avoids rehashing the controversies of the Weimar era in favour of examining a broader historical context. He examines Schmitt's notion of political theology, eschewing theocratic intention but taking seriously the 'secularization' of patterns of thought derived from Medieval theology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781786611697
• ISBN-10: 1786611694
• Artikelnr.: 56150928

Autorenporträt

William Rasch is Professor of Germanic Studies at Indiana University. He has published extensively on the German intellectual tradition - philosophy, social theory, political theory - concentrating on the work of Niklas Luhmann, Carl Schmitt, and aspects of German Idealism. He is the author of Sovereignty and Its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political (Birkbeck Law Press, 2004) and Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation (Stanford UP, 2000), and editor of several volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Political Theology
Introduction to Part One
1. Concrete Reason
2. Modernity and Its Discontents
3. Sovereignty
Part II: State versus Society
Introduction to Part Two
4. Theorizing State and Society
5. Liberalism
6. Democracy
7. Ethical State, Total State
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index