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

Although the modern age is often described as the age of democratic revolutions, the subject of popular founding has not captured the imagination of contemporary political thought. Most of the time, democratic theory and political science treat as the object of their inquiry normal politics, institu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalyvas, Andreas, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.