The concept of the political
By: Carl Schmitt ; translation, introduction, and notes by George Schwab ; with "The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations" (1929) translated by Matthias Konzen and John P. McCormick ; with Leo Straus's notes on Schmitt's essay, translated by J. Harvey Lomax ; foreword by Tracy B. Strong.
Contributors: Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985.
Edition: Expanded ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780226738925
Subjects: Political science.; State, The.
Work titles: Begriff des Politischen.
Description: "In this 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. George Schwab's introduction to his translation of the 1932 German edition highlights Schmitt's intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state. In addition to analysis by Leo Strauss and a foreword by Tracy B. Strong placing Schmitt's work into contemporary context, this expanded edition also includes a translation of Schmitt's 1929 lecture "The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations," which the author himself added to the 1932 edition of the book."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.