Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Order and Myth
Redaktion: Tralau, Johan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

These important new essays consider both as political thinkers; their importance for present-day politics and society; conceptions of myth and politics; and Schmitt's use of Hobbes in the Third Reich.

This book will be published as a special issue of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317991014
• Artikelnr.: 58397330

Autorenporträt

Johan Tralau teaches politics at Uppsala universitet. He has been a visiting scholar in Tokyo, Berlin, at the New School of Social Research, in Rome, and in Hanover. In 2007-2008, he hosted his own TV show, Kanon-TV, on the Swedish channel Axess TV. He has published extensively in English, German and Swedish, including his books, Människoskymning. Främlingskap, frihet, och Hegels problem hos Karl Marx och Ernst Jünger (2002, German trans. 2005), and Draksådd. Den grekiska tragedin som politiskt tänkande (2010); his work has been (or will shortly be) published in journals such as Political Theory; Philosophisches Jahrbuch; Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies; Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft; European Journal of Political Theory, and History of Political Thought.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and Three Conceptions of
Politics Johan Tralau 2. Schmitt's Behemoth Toma Mastnak 3. Hobbes and
Schmitt on the Name and Nature of Leviathan Revisited Patricia Springborg
4. Re-Imagining Leviathan: Schmitt and Oakeshott on Hobbes and the Problem
of Political Order Jan-Werner Müller 5. Hobbes's Paradox Redux Roberto
Farneti 6. The Liberal Slip of Thomas Hobbes's Authoritarian Pen Gabriella
Slomp 7. Does Hobbes have a Concept of the Enemy? Stephen Holmes 8. From
Roman Catholicism to Mechanized Oppression: On Political-Theological
Disjunctures in Schmitt's Weimar Thought John P. McCormick 9. Hobbes,
Schmitt, and the Paradox of Religious Liberality Karsten Fischer 10. The
Significance of Hobbes's Conception of Power John Dunn 11. Order, the
Ocean, and Satan: Schmitt's Hobbes, National Socialism, and the Enigmatic
Ambiguity of Friend and Foe Johan Tralau