A dangerous mind
Subtitle: Carl Schmitt in post-war European thought
By: Jan-Werner Müller
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Schmitt, Carl, -- 1888-1985 -- Political and social views; Liberalism
Description: "Offering a concise account of Schmitt's life and career along with discussions of his key concepts, Muller explains why interest in the political theorist continues. He analyzes Schmitt's post-1945 writings on international order, partisanship, and terror. He explores in detail the responses of liberal thinkers to Schmitt's challenging legacy and the highly ingenious (and often problematic) defenses of liberalism they devised. Muller offers a range of insights into the liberalization of political thinking in post-authoritarian societies and the persistent vulnerabilities and blind spots of certain strands of Western liberalism. Finally, he also assesses the current uses of Schmitt's thought in debates on globalization and the quest for a liberal world order."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-287) and index
Table of contents: title: A German public lawyer in the twentieth century; title: Masks and mirrors; title: In search of stability I : Schmittianism in the German constitutional jurisprudence; title: In search of stability II : industrial society, technocracy and the extinction of political will; title: Visions of global order : Schmitt, Aron and the civil servant of the world spirit; title: Schmitt and his historians : philosophies of history, the global civil war, and stranded objects; title: Melancholy modernism : the Ritter School; title: Don Carlos in Iberia : the 'new states' and the integrity of old Europe; title: The partisan in the landscape of treason : Schmitt's theory of guerilla warfare, and its partisans; title: Dangerous labyrinths : political theology and the legitimacy of the liberal age; title: Dangerous liaisons : Schmitt, the new left and the limits of liberalism; title: Terror, states of emergency and the liberal secessions; title: The death (and strange rebirth) of Carl Schmitt; title: Integral Europe and the rise of the European new right(s); title: Schmitt's globalization : drawing the lines