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Title: Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Carl Schmitt, Ellen Kennedy ISBN: 0-262-69126-4 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 22 June, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Summary: Liberalism vs. Democracy
Comment: This book is a must-read for those who are interested in fostering Western democratic-liberal ideals in currently authoritarian regimes. Schmitt challenges the seamless grouping of liberal ideals and democratic ideals, and argues that the principles of liberalism and democracy actually stand in direct contradiction. Schmitt bases this claim on the exclusionary nature--the identification of the "other"--in historical democracies. That is, for instance, the Athenian political body understood itself as specifically non-Spartan, as well as non-female and non-slave. Similarly, South African democracy during apartheid, Israeli democracy today, and US democracy in previous centuries were similarly formed and fostered by the exclusion of the "other". The principles of liberalism on the other hand respect all persons simply as persons, and do not differentiate in law between individuals. Thus liberalism speaks of human rights, rule of law, etc. These important insights are useful as a kind of cautionary tale as the West seeks to promote democracy around the globe. The book provides the conceptual framework for us to understand how democracies such as those in the Balkans in the 90's (or Schmitt's own Weimar Republic) could have produced such strikingly illiberal results.
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Title: The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt, George Schwab, Leo Strauss, Harvey J. Lomax, Tracy B. Strong ISBN: 0226738868 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Challenge of Carl Schmitt by Chantal Mouffe ISBN: 1859842445 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism : Against Politics as Technology by John P. McCormick, Robert B. Pippin ISBN: 0521664578 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt by Gopal Balakrishnan ISBN: 185984359X Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in Weimar by David Dyzenhaus ISBN: 0198298463 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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