Democracy and the politics of the extraordinary
Subtitle: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt
By: Andreas Kalyvas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521133418
Subjects: Weber, Max, -- 1864-1920 -- Political and social views; Schmitt, Carl, -- 1888-1985 -- Political and social views; Arendt, Hannah, -- 1906-1975 -- Political and social views; Pak Organization of Workers in Educational Research; Democracy; Power (Social sciences); Political science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Charismatic politics and the symbolic foundations of power : Max Weber; title: Revisiting Weber's concept of the political; title: Charismatic politics; title: Disavowing charismatic politics; title: The exception and constitutional politics : Carl Schmitt; title: The popular constituent sovereign and the pure theory of democratic legitimacy; title: Toward a theory of democratic constitutionalism; title: The extra-institutional sovereign; title: Taming the extraordinary : Hannah Arendt; title: Extraordinary beginnings I : Arendt's critique of Schmitt; title: Extraordinary beginnings II : Arendt's response to Schmitt; title: The republic of councils : beyond democracy and liberalism?; title: Conclusion: A democratic theory of the extraordinary.