Trumpism, Carl Schmitt, and the Threat of Anti Liberalism in the - The Political Thought of Donald Trump and Trumpism

This book argues that Carl Schmitt is useful in explaining and bringing order to the apparent chaos of Trumpism. Adams uses this understanding to argue that Trumpism, rather than representing a return to American constitutional principles, is an abandonment of them.

List of contents

Chapter One: Trumpism and Anti-Liberalism
Chapter Two: The Political World of Carl Schmitt
Chapter Three: Friends and Foes
Chapter Four: The Sovereign State
Chapter Five: The Exception
Chapter Six: Democracy
Chapter Seven: Antiliberal Democracy
Chapter Eight: Friends, Enemies, and Citizenship
Chapter Nine: The American Constitutional Paradigm

About the author

Dr. Bobbi Adams earned a BA from Wesleyan University in the College of Social Studies and MA from McGill University in Political Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Political Science with a concentration in constitutional theory.

Product details

• Authors: Roberta Adams
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781666952254
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-225-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government, Central government, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies