Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-991693-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 874 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1491 g

Reihe: Oxford Handbooks

The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was a German theorist whose anti-liberalism continues to inspire scholars and practitioners on both the Left and the Right. Despite Schmitt's rabid antisemitism and partisan legal practice in Nazi Germany, the appeal of his trenchant critiques of, among other things,
aestheticism, representative democracy, and international law as well as of his theoretical justifications of dictatorship and rule by exception is undiminished. Uniquely located at the intersection of law, the social sciences, and the humanities, this volume brings together sophisticated yet accessible
interpretations of Schmitt's sprawling thought and complicated biography. The contributors hail from diverse disciplines, including art, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and history. In addition to opening up exciting new avenues of research, The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt provides the intellectual foundations for an improved understanding of the political, legal, and cultural thought of this most infamous of German theorists. A substantial introduction places the
trinity of Schmitt's thought in a broad context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meierhenrich, Jens

Simons, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Oliver Simons is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Columbia University.
Jens Meierhenrich is Associate Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics.