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Author:

Kalyvas, Andreas, 1967-

Title:

Democracy and the politics of the extraordinary : Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt / Andreas Kalyvas.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 326 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Democracy.
Pak Organization of Workers in Educational Research.
Political science--Philosophy.
Weber, Max,--1864-1920--Political and social views.
Schmitt, Carl,--1888-1985--Political and social views.
Arendt, Hannah,--1906-1975--Political and social views.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index.

Contents:

Charismatic politics and the symbolic foundations of power : Max Weber -- Revisiting Weber's concept of the political -- Charismatic politics -- Disavowing charismatic politics -- The exception and constitutional politics : Carl Schmitt -- The popular constituent sovereign and the pure theory of democratic legitimacy -- Toward a theory of democratic constitutionalism -- The extra-institutional sovereign -- Taming the extraordinary : Hannah Arendt -- Extraordinary beginnings I : Arendt's critique of Schmitt -- Extraordinary beginnings II : Arendt's response to Schmitt -- The republic of councils : beyond democracy and liberalism? -- Conclusion: A democratic theory of the extraordinary.

ISBN:

0521877687 (hardback)
9780521877688 (hardback)

LCCN:

2007033617

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)