Der Behemoth.: Metamorphosen Des Anti-Leviathan. [German]

By Horst Bredekamp

Behemoth and Leviathan. Rebellion and governmental
order, state of civil war and sovereign statesperson. Since Thomas Hobbes'
publication of Leviathan , political theory has not been able to detach itself from
these two biblical monsters whose images capture the modern political spirit. Horst
Bredekamp's history of the Prefiguration of the Modern State and its mutations
marks the onset of more recent interpretations (Thomas Hobbes. Der Leviathan. Das
Urbild des modernen Staates und seine Gegenbilder, 1651-2001. Berlin 1999, 2006). Yet
Leviathan can only be understood against the foil of its doppelg nger, the land
animal Behemoth, which is - following Carl Schmitt - the political symbol of the
natural state's revolutionary anarchic force. Its visual history is no less
convoluted. In his recent study, Horst Bredekamp pursues the two beasts' political
history by focusing on the Jobian monster's historical metamorphosis. Concurrently,
it is the first volume of the Carl Schmitt Lectures series, publishing the annual
lectures of the Carl Schmitt Society in Berlin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3428149327
• ISBN13: 9783428149322
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Duncker & Humblot
• Length: 117 Pages