Hans Kelsen's Political Realism

by Robert Schuett

Book Overview

This book is the first work to show this iconic legal philosopher's significance as a progressive political realist. In a lively account of Kelsen's life and political thinking, Robert Schuett introduces him as a political realist and brings his thought on human nature, the state and war into productive tension with today's Schmittians and conventional views of foreign policy realism.
At a precarious moment in world history, where Western liberal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474481698
• ISBN13: 9781474481694
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"