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The State of the Political: Conceptions of Politics and the State in the Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Franz Neumann (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs)
Duncan Kelly
Hardcover. British Academy 2003-12.
ISBN 9780197262870
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The State of the Political offers a broad-ranging re-interpretation of the
understanding of politics and the state in the writings of three major German
thinkers, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann. It rejects the typical
separation of these writers on the basis of their allegedly incompatible
ideological positions, and suggests instead that once properly located in their
historical context, the tendentious character of these interpretative
boundaries becomes clear. The book interprets the conceptions of politics and
the state in the writings of these three thinkers by means of an investigation
of their adaptation and modification of particular German traditions of
thinking about the state, or Staatsrechtslehre. Indeed, when the theoretical
considerations of this state-legal theory are combined with their contemporary
political criticism, a richer and more deeply textured account of the issues
that engaged the attention of Weber, Schmitt and Neumann is possible. Thus, the broad range of subjects discussed in this book include
parliamentarism and democracy in Germany, academic freedom and political
economy, political representation, cultural criticism and patriotism, and the
relationship between rationality, law, sovereignty and the constitution. The
State of the Political is based on extensive consideration of primary and
secondary materials, and is held together by a general focus on the importance
to these authors of distilling an adequate account of the state and the
political - largely because this could bolster their subsequent criticisms of
contemporary politics. The study attempts to restore a sense of proportion to
discussion of their writings, focusing on the extensive ideas that they shared
rather than insisting on their necessary ideological separation. It is a
detailed re-appraisal of a crucial moment in modern intellectual history, and
highlights the profound importance of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Franz Neumann
for the history of European ideas. The 'State of the Political' challenges traditional interpretations of the
political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann. Focusing on
their adaptation of a German tradition of state-legal theory, the book offers a
contextual zed account of the interrelationship between their political thought
and practical political criticism.
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