Type de produit
Carl Schmitt
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Légalité et légitimité
Carl Schmitt
- Les presses de l'université de montréal
- Pensée allemande et européenne
- 3 Avril 2015
- 9782760634725
Rédigé dans l'urgence à l'été de 1932, ce petit traité accompagne l'échec de la première expérience démocratique allemande. Il jette un regard incisif sur la crise qui emporte la République de Weimar et évalue les chances de sauver le régime face aux extrémistes de droite et de gauche. Philosophie politique, commentaire juridique et raison d'État se conjuguent ici sous l'effet d'une rhétorique vigoureuse et rusée, digne des plus grands publicistes.
Écrit dans un contexte tragique et marqué par la carrière sulfureuse de son auteur, l'ouvrage a connu des échos aussi multiples qu'inattendus dans les démocraties d'après-guerre. La démocratie est-elle foncièrement un régime sans défense ? Doit-elle accepter l'existence de partis politiques attachés à la renverser ? Les mesures d'exception et de sécurité sont-elles justifiables au nom du salut public ? Peut-on préserver l'esprit d'une constitution et en nier la lettre ? Les questions que pose cet ouvrage résonnent encore dans d'innombrables conflits politiques.
Catholique et conservateur, Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) fut un analyste perspicace de la crise des démocraties d'entre-deux-guerres, avant d'adhérer au nazisme en 1933. Arrêté par les Alliés en 1945, il est libéré deux ans plus tard. Il est l'auteur d'une oeuvre imposante et controversée, croisant le droit, la pensée politique, la théologie et la critique culturelle.
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Political Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book. Part polemic, part self-vindication for his involvement in the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), this is Schmitt's most theological reflection on Christianity and its concept of sovereignty following the Second Vatican Council. At a time of increasing visibility of religion in public debates and a realization that Schmitt is the major and most controversial political theorist of the twentieth century, this last book sets a new agenda for political theology today. The crisis at the beginning of the twenty-first century led to an increased interest in the study of crises in an age of extremes - an age upon which Carl Schmitt left his indelible watermark. In Political Theology II, first published in 1970, a long journey comes to an end which began in 1923 with Political Theology. This translation makes available for the first time to the English-speaking world Schmitt's understanding of Political Theology and what it implies theologically and politically.
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Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt's most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work.
Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and the power of the Reichspräsident in declaring it. Dictatorship, Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutional law and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of a so-called dictator.
Dictatorship is an essential book for understanding the work of Carl Schmitt and a major contribution to the modern theory of a democratic, constitutional state. And despite being written in the early part of the twentieth century, it speaks with remarkable prescience to our contemporary political concerns. -
Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War, The Großraum Order of International Law, and The International Crime of the War of Aggression and the Principle "Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege". Written between 1937 and 1945, these works articulate Schmitt's concerns throughout this period of war and crisis, addressing the major failings of the League of Nations, and presenting Schmitt's own conceptual history of these years of disaster for international jurisprudence. For Schmitt, the jurisprudence of Versailles and Nuremberg both fail to provide for a stable international system, insofar as they attempt to impose universal standards of 'humanity' on a heterogeneous world, and treat efforts to revise the status quo as 'criminal' acts of war. In place of these flawed systems, Schmitt argues for a new planetary order in which neither collective security organizations nor 19th century empires, but Schmittian 'Reichs' will be the leading subject of international law. Writings on War will be essential reading for those seeking to understand the work of Carl Schmitt, the history of international law and the international system, and interwar European history. Not only do these writings offer an erudite point of entry into the dynamic and charged world of interwar European jurisprudence; they also speak with prescience to a 21st century world struggling with similar issues of global governance and international law.
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When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied. The Americans called their approach “automatic arrest.” Carl Schmitt, although not belonging in the circles subject to automatic arrest, was held in one of these camps in the years 1945–6 and then, in March 1947, in the prison of the international tribunal in Nuremberg, as witness and “possible defendant.” A formal charge was never brought against him. Schmitt’s way of coping throughout the years of isolation was to write this book. In Ex Captivitate Salus, or Deliverance from Captivity, Schmitt considers a range of issues relating to history and political theory as well as recent events, including the Nazi defeat and the newly emerging Cold War. Schmitt often urged his readers to view the book as though ?it were a series of letters personally directed to each one of them. Hence there is a decidedly personal dimension to the text, as Schmitt expresses his thoughts on his own career trajectory with some pathos, while at the same time emphasising that “this is not romantic or heroic prison literature.” This reflective work sheds new light on Schmitt’s thought and personal situation at the beginning of a period of exile from public life that only ended with his death in 1985. It will be of great value to the many students and scholars in political theory and law who continue to study and appreciate this seminal theorist of the twentieth century.
