Enemy : an intellectual portrait of Carl Schmitt / Gopal Balakrishnan.

By:

Balakrishnan, Gopal

Contributor(s):

Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Verso, 2000.Description: vi, 312 p. ; 23 cm. ; PbkISBN:

9781859843598

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.533092 BAL 21

Contents:

1. The Young Carl Schmitt 2. Dictatorship Sovereign and Commissarial 3. The State of Emergency 4. Catholicism and Nationalism in Modern Politics 5. The Legitimation Crisis of Parliament 6. Status Quo and Peace 7. Rechtsstaat and Democracy 8. The Crisis of Political Reason 9. The Elites: Between Pluralism and Fascism 10. Presidential Rule and Judicial Activism 11. Legality and Legitimacy 12. Trial and Endgame 13. The National Socialist Revolution 14. The Revolution in Legal Thought 15. Flight Forward and Retreat 16. The Leviathan Myth 17. Diaspora, Utopia, Katechon 18. The International Order and World War 19. The Law of the Earth 20. Finis Germania. "The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, and the author of a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no recognizable system, which comes to us from a disturbing place and time in the form of fragments."

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	320.533092 BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K1988

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-305) and index.

1. The Young Carl Schmitt
2. Dictatorship Sovereign and Commissarial
3. The State of Emergency
4. Catholicism and Nationalism in Modern Politics
5. The Legitimation Crisis of Parliament
6. Status Quo and Peace
7. Rechtsstaat and Democracy
8. The Crisis of Political Reason
9. The Elites: Between Pluralism and Fascism
10. Presidential Rule and Judicial Activism
11. Legality and Legitimacy
12. Trial and Endgame
13. The National Socialist Revolution
14. The Revolution in Legal Thought
15. Flight Forward and Retreat
16. The Leviathan Myth
17. Diaspora, Utopia, Katechon
18. The International Order and World War
19. The Law of the Earth
20. Finis Germania. "The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, and the author of a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no recognizable system, which comes to us from a disturbing place and time in the form of fragments."

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