| The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt Revised Edition Contributor(s): Balakrishnan, Gopal (Author) |
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ISBN: 185984359X ISBN-13: 9781859843598 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320.533 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.98 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no recognizable system, coming to us from a disturbing place and time in the form of fragments. The Enemy is a comprehensive reconstruction and analysis of all of Schmitt's major works--his books, articles and pamphlets from 1919 to 1950--presented in an arresting narrative form. The revelation of his work is that, unlike mainstream Nazi ideology, Schmitt makes a strong philosophical claim for the necessity of confrontational politics within a democratic system; a claim that has resonance in today's hegemony of consensual politics. |