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Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and...

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Every fundamental order is a spatial order. One speaks of the constitution of a country or a piece o...

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Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not ...

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Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not b...

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The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy

The essence and value of the law lies in its stability and durability (...), in its “relative eterni...

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The Plight of European Jurisprudence

Hauriou, became a crown witness for us when he confirmed this connection in 1916, in the midst of WW...

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The Plight of European Jurisprudence

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Carl Schmitt

Philosopher

Born: 1888-07-11

Died: 1985-04-07

Carl Schmitt (11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist and political theorist. Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power. A conservative theorist, he is noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism, and his work has been a major influence on subsequent political theory, legal theory, continental philosophy, and political theology.More