The Challenge of the Exception: An Introduction to the Political Ideas of Carl Schmitt Between 1921 and 1936

by George Schwab

The Challenge of the Exception is the key that unlocked the ideas of Carl Schmitt, a leading political theorist and jurist who influenced the thoughts of, among others, Hannah Arendt, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Otto Kirchheimer, Hans Morgenthau, Franz Neumann, and Leo Strauss. Professor Schwab clearly articulates Schmitt's key concepts and relates their centrality to politics and the state, to the political theory of liberalism, democracy and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313272298
• ISBN13: 9780313272295
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"