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041 _aeng
082 _a320.019
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100 _aSchwab, George
245 _aThe concept of the political
260 _aChicago :
_b University of Chicago Press
_cc2007
300 _axxxi, 126 p. :
_c22 cm.
504 _aindex
520 _aIn 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.
650 _a Das Politische; PHILOSOPHY Political; Political science
942 _cENGLISH
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