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Schupmann appraises Schmitt's constitutional theory and examines how it was conceived in response to the Weimar Germany's legitimation crisis. Schmitt's normative theory of 'constrained' democracy offers a novel way to understand the legitimacy of liberal democracy and the limits of constitutional change, and is today more relevant than ever.
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Benjamin A. Schupmann is a lecturer in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in the Division of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS. His research interests include the history of political thought, state and constitutional theory, constitutionalism, and 20th-century German political and legal thought.
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Schupmann appraises Schmitt's constitutional theory and examines how it was conceived in response to the Weimar Germany's legitimation crisis. Schmitt's normative theory of 'constrained' democracy offers a novel way to understand the legitimacy of liberal democracy and the limits of constitutional change, and is today more relevant than ever.
Testo aggiuntivo
This is an important scholarly work with clear political implications. Schupmann develops a crucial dimension of the work of Carl Schmitt, the theorist of militant democracy. In this analysis, the fundamental flaw of liberal democracy is its inability to guard itself against authoritarian projects relying on the legality of the inherited amendment rule. Schupmann argues that both Schmitt's theory of the limits of amendment, and his justification of emergency provisions of constitutions should be understood in terms of this dilemma. The book is a must for all those interested in Schmitt.
