Dictatorship
“Dictatorship” by Carl Schmitt, published by Polity on December 23, 2013, is now available in English for the first time. This edition spans 288 pages and presents Schmitt’s scholarly analysis of the state of emergency and the authority of the Reichspräsident in declaring it. Schmitt argues that dictatorship is a necessary legal institution within constitutional law, challenging the common perception of it as merely the arbitrary rule of a dictator.
Readers will find a thorough examination of political ideologies and the historical context surrounding Schmitt’s arguments, particularly in relation to the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the First World War. This work serves as a significant contribution to the understanding of democratic and constitutional states, addressing contemporary political concerns with insights that remain relevant today.
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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 law and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of a so-called dictator.
Dictatorship is an essential book for understanding the work of Carl Schmitt and a major contribution to the modern theory of a democratic, constitutional state. And despite being written in the early part of the twentieth century, it speaks with remarkable prescience to our contemporary political concerns.
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