Dictatorship From the Origin of the Mode Concept of Sovereignty to Proletarian Class Struggle

Dictatorship From the Origin of the Mode Concept of Sovereignty to Proletarian Class Struggle

by: Carl Schmitt

ISBN-10: 0745646484

ISBN-13: 9780745646480

Edition: 1

Publication date: November 25, 2013

Paperback: 288 pages
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Book Description
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 mode 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 conces.