Carl Schmitt's critique of liberalism : against politics as technology / John P. McCormick.
Carl Schmitt's critique of liberalism : against politics as technology / John P. McCormick.
Carl Schmitt's critique of liberalism : against politics as technology / John P. McCormick.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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1997.
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N320.092/S355.1/2
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English
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xii, 352 p. ; 24 cm.
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I. Between Critical Theory and Political Existentialism: Schmitt's Confrontation with Technology. 1. Antinomies of Technical Thought: Attempting to Transcend Weber's Categories of Modernity. 2. Myth as Antidote to the "Age of Neutralizations": Nietzsche and Cultural Conflict as Response to Technolog...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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England
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1997.
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This is the first in-depth critical appraisal in English of the political, legal, and cultural writings of Carl Schmitt, perhaps this century's most brilliant critic of liberalism. Moreover, it offers an assessment of this most sophisticated of fascist theorists without attempting either to apologize for or demonize him.
Schmitt's Weimar writings confront the role of modern technology as it finds expression through the principles and practices of liberalism. Just as technology is characterized by both the abstractly formal logic of Enlightenment science and the irrational will toward domination generated by mass exhilaration and fear, so liberalism, according to Sc...
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Carl Schmitt's critique of liberalism : against politics as technology / John P. McCormick.
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Modern European philosophy.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-341) and index.
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0521664578 (pbk.) :
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