Janus's Gaze: Essays on Carl Schmitt

by Carlo Galli

Book Overview

First published in Italian in 2008 and appearing here in English for the first time, Janus's Gaze is the culmination of Carlo Galli's ongoing critique of the work of Carl Schmitt. Galli argues that Schmitt's main accomplishment, as well as the thread that unifies his oeuvre, is his construction of a genealogy of the modern that explains how modernity's compulsory drive to achieve order is both necessary and impossible. Galli addresses five...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360322
• ISBN13: 9780822360322
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"