The concept of the political
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press c2007
- xxxi, 126 p. : 22 cm.
Includes index
In this, his most influential 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--a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared. 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.
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Das Politische; PHILOSOPHY Political; Political science