Carl Schmitt: Theorist for the Reich

by Joseph W. Bendersky

Basing his work on the writings of Schmitt and his contemporaries, extensive new archival documentation, and parts of Schmitt's personal papers, Professor Bendersky uses Schmitt's public career as a framework for re-evaluating his contributions to political and legal theory. This book establishes that Schmitt's late Weimar writings were directed at preventing rather than encouraging the Nazi acquisition of power. Originally published in 1983. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691053804
• ISBN13: 9780691053806
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"