Schmitt Dictatorship

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-9712-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship isCarl Schmitt's most scholarly book and arguably a paradigmfor his entire work.
Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First WorldWar, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and thepower of the Reichspräsident in declaring it. Dictatorship,Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutionallaw and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of aso-called dictator.
Dictatorship is an essential book for understanding the workof Carl Schmitt and a major contribution to the modern theory of ademocratic, constitutional state. And despite being written in theearly part of the twentieth century, it speaks with remarkableprescience to our contemporary political concerns.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmitt, Carl

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator's Introduction
Foreword to the fourth edition (1978)
Foreword to the third edition (1964)
Foreword to the second edition (1928)
Preliminary remarks to the first edition (1921)
I Commissary Dictatorship and the theory of the state
II The praxis of royal commissars up to the 18th century
III The transition to sovereign dictatorship in the theory of the state of the 18th century
IV The concept of sovereign dictatorship
V The praxis of the people's commissars during the French Revolution
VI Dictatorship in the contemporary constitution (the state of besiegement)
Appendix: The Dictatorship of the Reichspräsident according to Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution pp. 211-57
I Common interpretation of Article 48, Paragraph 2 today
II The regulation of Article 48, Paragraph 2 as a provisorium
III General limitation of competence based on Article 48, Paragraph 2
IV The law of implementation [Ausfüngsgesetz] regarding Article 48 RV
INDEX OF NAMES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
GLOSSARY

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential political theorists of the twentieth century.