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  • The Concept of the Political

    by Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss ...
    Translated by George Schwab ...
    "Arguably Schmitt's most influential work . . . recognized as one of the most important tracts of modern political thought." —Samuel Earle, The New StatesmanIn this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Political Theology

    Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

    by Carl Schmitt ...
    Translated by George Schwab ...
    The distinctive theory of sovereignty from one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century.Translated and with an introduction by George SchwabForeword by Tracy B. StrongWritten in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Carl Schmitt argues in Political Theology that legal order ultimately rests upon the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Idea of the Public Sphere

    A Reader

    by Hannah Arendt, Seyla Benhabib, James Bohman, John Dewey, Jon Elster, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Kluge, Walter Lippmann, Niklas Luhmann, Oskar Negt, Bernhard Peters, John Rawls, Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, G.W.F Hegel, Chantal Mouffe ...
    The notion of "the public sphere" has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity.The Idea of the Public Sphere offers a wide-ranging, accessible, and easy-to-use introduction to one of the most ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Legality and Legitimacy

    by Carl Schmitt, John P. McCormick ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Seitzer ...
    Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. His incisive criticisms of Enlightenment political thought and liberal political practice remain as shocking and significant today as when they first appeared in Weimar Germany. Unavailable in English until now, Legality and Legitimacy was composed in 1932, in the midst of the crisis that ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Constitutional Theory

    by Carl Schmitt, Christopher Thornhill ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Seitzer ...
    Carl Schmitt’s magnum opus, Constitutional Theory, was originally published in 1928 and has been in print in German ever since. This volume makes Schmitt’s masterpiece of comparative constitutionalism available to English-language readers for the first time. Schmitt is considered by many to be one of the most original—and, because of his collaboration with the Nazi party, controversial—political ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Dictatorship

    by Carl Schmitt ...
    Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt’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 Reichspräsident in declaring it. Dictatorship, Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutional ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Political Romanticism

    by Carl Schmitt ...
    A pioneer in legal and political theory, Schmitt traces the prehistory of political romanticism by examining its relationship to revolutionary and reactionary tendencies in modern European history. Both the partisans of the French Revolution and its most embittered enemies were numbered among the romantics. During the movement for German national unity at the beginning of the nineteenth century, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Political Theology II

    The Myth of the Closure of any Political Theology

    by Carl Schmitt ...
    Translated by Michael Hoelzl, Graham Ward ...
    Political Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book. Part polemic, part self-vindication for his involvement in the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), this is Schmitt's most theological reflection on Christianity and its concept of sovereignty following the Second Vatican Council. At a time of increasing visibility of religion in public debates and a realization that Schmitt is the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Ex Captivitate Salus

    Experiences, 1945 - 47

    by Carl Schmitt ...
    Translated by Matthew Hannah ...
    When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied. The Americans called their approach “automatic arrest.” Carl Schmitt, although not belonging in the circles subject to automatic arrest, was held in one of these camps in the years 1945–6 and then, in March 1947, in the prison of the international tribunal in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich

    The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier

    by Carl Schmitt ...
    Translated by Samuel Garrett Zeitlin ...
    Newly published for the first time in English translation, Carl Schmitt's 1934 tract, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier, is an important addition to the corpus of Schmitt's work in English. Written and published at the height of Carl Schmitt's entanglement with National Socialism, this work outlines Schmitt's historical and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Writings on War

    Translated by Timothy Nunan ...
    by Carl Schmitt ...
    Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War, The Großraum Order of International Law, and The International Crime of the War of Aggression and the Principle "Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege".Written between 1937 and 1945, these works articulate Schmitt's ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Concept of the Political (Expanded Edition)

    by Carl Schmitt ...
    Narrated by Andy Ingalls ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 43 min

    In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism’s basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared. George Schwab’s introduction to his translation of the 1932 German edition highlights Schmitt’s intellectual journey through ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

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