To represent a people

Carl Schmitt and the monarchical principle

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11348239
AutoresJoshua Smeltzer (University of Cambridge, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Páginas1-19
Fecha de publicación2023-07-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory of European Ideas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01916599.2023.2233067
OpenAlexW4383341511
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas27

Although much has been written on the German jurist Carl Schmitt’s commentary on liberal democracy and parliamentarism, his analysis of monarchy and monarchism has remained overlooked. This article excavates Schmitt’s analysis of monarchy and the monarchical principle articulated during the Weimar Republic. Although Schmitt never devoted a text to exploring monarchy as he did for other state forms, this article argues that the monarchical principle is nevertheless central to his account of political representation presented in his Constitutional Theory and can only be properly understood when contextualized in his shorter, contemporaneous writings. The article then explores the relationship between the monarchical principle and Schmitt’s understanding of constituent power in the figure of the republicanized monarch

Absolute monarchy · Constitutional monarchy · Democracy · German · Monarchy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Weimar Republic · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought