Carl Schmitt''s Early Legal-Theoretical Writings - Statute Judgment Value of State Significance of Individual

The materials translated here provide the intellectual background to Carl Schmitt's political and constitutional theory. This book will be of interest to legal and constitutional theorists, political theorists and historians of political thought more generally, and it will be required reading for all scholars who work on Schmitt.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Carl Schmitt and the Problem of the Realization of Law; 2. Statute and Judgment; 3. The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual.

About the author

Lars Vinx is a University Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law: Legality and Legitimacy (2007), and also prepared an English language translation of the debate between Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on constitutional guardianship (The Guardian of the Constitution. Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Limits of Constitutional Law, 2015).Samuel Garrett Zeitlin is Hong Kong Link Early Career Research Fellow and a College Lecturer in Politics at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His publications include editions and translations of Carl Schmitt's Land and Sea (2015) and The Tyranny of Values and Other Texts (2018), as well as articles in History of Political Thought, The Review of Politics, Politisches Denken Jahrbuch and Modern Intellectual History.

Summary

The materials translated here provide the intellectual background to Carl Schmitt's political and constitutional theory. This book will be of interest to legal and constitutional theorists, political theorists and historians of political thought more generally, and it will be required reading for all scholars who work on Schmitt.

Foreword

Makes available in English Carl Schmitt's early legal-theoretical writings, the intellectual background of Schmitt's political and constitutional theory.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lars Vinx (Editor and translation), Vinx Lars (Editor and translation), Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108714716
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71471-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / International, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Public, Political science & theory, Public International Law, Political science and theory, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general