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

by Carl Schmitt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745646484
• ISBN13: 9780745646480
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"