Dictatorship From the Origin of the Modern Concept of Sovereignty to Proletarian Class Struggle

Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt's most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and the power of the Reichspräsident in declaring it. Dictatorship, Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutional law and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of a so-called dictator. Dictatorship is an essential book for understanding the work of Carl Schmitt and a major contribution to the modern theory of a democratic, constitutional state. And despite being written in the early part of the twentieth century, it speaks with remarkable prescience to our contemporary political concerns.

ISBN:	9780745646480
Publisher:	Polity Press
Imprint:	Polity Press
Published date:	01 Nov 2013
DEWEY:	321.9
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	13020
Number of pages:	xlv, 314
Weight:	634g
Height:	152mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	27mm

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