The Concept of the Political

The Concept of the Political
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781137002518
ISBN-13 : 1137002514
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Book Synopsis The Concept of the Political by : Hans J. Morgenthau

Download or read book The Concept of the Political written by Hans J. Morgenthau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing interest in the oeuvre of Hans J. Morgenthau and in re-readings of 'classical realism' increases the significance of his European, pre-emigration writings in order to understand the work of one of the founding figures of IR. This book is the first English translation of Morgenthau's French monograph La notion du politique from 1933 (translated by Maeva Vidal).

Political Theology

Political Theology
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 123
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ISBN-10 : 9780226738901
ISBN-13 : 0226738906
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Book Synopsis Political Theology by : Carl Schmitt

Download or read book Political Theology written by Carl Schmitt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationships among political leadership, the norms of the legal order, and the state of political emergency, Schmitt argues in Political Theology that legal order ultimately rests upon the decisions of the sovereign. According to Schmitt, only the sovereign can meet the needs of an "exceptional" time and transcend legal order so that order can then be reestablished. Convinced that the state is governed by the ever-present possibility of conflict, Schmitt theorizes that the state exists only to maintain its integrity in order to ensure order and stability. Suggesting that all concepts of modern political thought are secularized theological concepts, Schmitt concludes Political Theology with a critique of liberalism and its attempt to depoliticize political thought by avoiding fundamental political decisions.

Political Theology

Political Theology
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780231153416
ISBN-13 : 0231153414
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Book Synopsis Political Theology by : Paul W. Kahn

Download or read book Political Theology written by Paul W. Kahn and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In a text innovative in both form and substance, Kahn forces an engagement with Schmitt's four chapters, offering a new version of each that is responsive to the American political imaginary.

Politics and the Concept of the Political

Politics and the Concept of the Political
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9781317288398
ISBN-13 : 1317288394
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Politics and the Concept of the Political by : James Wiley

Download or read book Politics and the Concept of the Political written by James Wiley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recent trend in contemporary western political theory is to criticize it for implicitly trying to "conquer," "displace" or "moralize" politics. James Wiley’s book takes the "next step," from criticizing contemporary political theory, to showing what a more "politics-centered" political theory would look like by exploring the meaning and value of politics in the writings of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt, Sheldon Wolin, Claude Lefort, and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. These political theorists all use the concept of "the political" to explain the value of politics and defend it from its detractors. They represent state-centered, republic-centered and society-centered conceptions of politics, as well as realist, authoritarian, idealist, republican, populist and radical democratic traditions of political thought. This book compares these theorists and traditions of "the political" in order to defend politics from its critics and to contribute to the development of a politics-centered political theory. Politics and the Concept of the Political will be a useful resource to general audiences as well as to specialists in political theory.

Political Concepts

Political Concepts
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 0719059097
ISBN-13 : 9780719059094
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Book Synopsis Political Concepts by : Richard Bellamy

Download or read book Political Concepts written by Richard Bellamy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a sophisticated analysis of central political concepts in the light of recent debates in political theory. It introduces readers to some of the main interpretations, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses, including a broad range of the main concepts used in contemporary debates on political theory. It tackles the principle concepts employed to justify any policy or institution and examines the main domestic purposes and functions of the state. It goes on to study the relationship between state and civil society and finally looks beyond the state to issues of global concern and inter-state relations.

Groundless Existence

Groundless Existence
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9780826434081
ISBN-13 : 0826434088
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Book Synopsis Groundless Existence by : Michael Marder

Download or read book Groundless Existence written by Michael Marder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundless Existence discusses the implicit phenomenological and existential foundations of Schmitt's political philosophy. The book's unique contribution lies in its claim that Schmitt decisively breaks with the metaphysical tradition and predicates the political on the 'groundless' categories of existence, including risk, decision, and agonism. This argument is substantiated by both tacit and explicit existentialist and phenomenological underpinnings of Schmitt's work, discussed here for the first time in book form.The book provides an insight into the implications of Schmitt's thought reconceptualized in the light of contemporary political developments. An essential text for anyone interested in the political theory of Carl Schmitt, it offers a new reading of Schmitt's work against the double background of phenomenology and existentialism.

The Concept of the Political

The Concept of the Political
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 159
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ISBN-10 : 9780226738840
ISBN-13 : 0226738841
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Concept of the Political by : Carl Schmitt

Download or read book The Concept of the Political written by Carl Schmitt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In addition to analysis by Leo Strauss and a foreword by Tracy B. Strong placing Schmitt’s work into contemporary context, this expanded edition also includes a translation of Schmitt’s 1929 lecture “The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations,” which the author himself added to the 1932 edition of the book. An essential update on a modern classic, The Concept of the Political, Expanded Edition belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in political theory or philosophy.