Carl Schmitt

Legality and Legitimacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First English-language translation of one of Schmitt's major works, providing a missing link in the oeuvre of this influential and controversial political theorist.

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"An English translation of Carl Schmitt's "Legalitat und Legitimitat" is long overdue. "Legality and Legitimacy" concludes the critique of legal positivism and the rationality of statute law he began in "The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy" and "Political Theology" and does so in the historical context of Weimar's final crisis. It was an important argument at the time and is just as significant seventy-odd years later."--Ellen Kennedy, author of "Constitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimar"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331742
• ISBN-10: 0822331748
• Artikelnr.: 22063080

Autorenporträt

Carl Schmitt

Inhaltsangabe

Translator’s Preface / Jeffrey Seitzer ix
Identifying or Exploiting the Paradoxes of Constitutional Democracy? An
Introduction to Carl Schmitt’s Legality and Legitimacy JOHN P. McCORMICK
xiii
Legality and Legitimacy
Introduction: The Legislative State System of Legality Compared to Other
State Types (Jurisdiction, Governmnetal, and Administrative States) / John
P. McCormick 3
I: The System of the Legality of the Parliaamentary Legislative State
1. The Legislative State and the Concept of Law 17
2. Legality and the Equal Chance for Achieving Political Power 27
II: The Three Extraordinary Lawgivers of the Weimar Constitution
3. The Extraordinary Lawgiver Ratione Materiae: The Second Principal Part
of the Weimar Constitution and a Second Constitution 39
4. The Extraordinary Lawgiver Ratione Supremitatis: Actual Meaning -
Plebiscitary Legitimacy instead of Lgislative State Legality 59
5. The Extraordinary Lawgiver Ratione Necessitatis: Actual Meaning - The
Administrative State Measure Displaces the Parliamentary Legislative State
Statute 67
Conclusion 85
Afterword (1958) 95
Appendix: Selected Articles of the Weimar Constitution 103
Notes 109
Works Cited by Carl Schmitt in Legality and Legitimacy 161
Index 165