(np) Schmitt reviews

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!

http://www.academia.edu/222092/Threats_of_to_Democracy_Schmitt_Benjamin_and_Derrida

On Friday, July 18, 2014, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:
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> The Concept of the Political:
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> http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13761
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> Political Theology:
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> http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=12384
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> Dictatorship:
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http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/03/11/book-review-dictatorship-by-carl-schmitt/
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> Constitutional Theory:
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> http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25214
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> The Nomos of the Earth:
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https://journals.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php/CCR/article/viewFile/13026/12889
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> Hamlet or Hecuba:
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> http://www.lanaturnerjournal.com/blog/marioschmitthamlet
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> “Thus democracy appeared to have the self-evidence of
an irresistible advancing and expanding force. So long as it was
essentially a polemical concept (that is, the negation of established
monarchy), democratic convictions could be joined to and reconciled with
various other political aspirations. But to the extent that it was
realized, democracy was seen to serve many masters and not in any way to
have a substantial, clear goal. As its most important opponent, the
monarchical principal, disappeared, democracy itself lost its substantive
precision and shared the fate of every polemical concept. At first,
democracy appeared in an entirely obvious alliance, even identity, with
liberalism and freedom. In social democracy it joined with socialism. The
success of Napoleon III and the result of Swiss referrenda demonstrate that
it could be conservative and reactionary, just as Proudhon prophesied. If
all political tendencies could make use of democracy, then this proved that
it had no political content and was only an organizational form; and if one
regarded it from the perspective of some political program that one hoped
to achieve with the help of democracy, then one had to ask oneself what
value democracy itself had merely as a form. The attempt to give democracy
a content by transferring it from the political to the economic sphere did
not answer the question.”
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> ▪ Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Duncker & Humblot,
1923; MIT Press, trn. Ellen Kennedy, 1985) extract from page 24.
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