Legality and LegitimacyCarl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller in Weimar

Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in Weimar

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19598677
AutoresDavid Dyzenhaus (0000-0002-6976-0716, autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Páginas298
Fecha de publicación1999-09-02
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaLegality and Legitimacy (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198298465.001.0001
OpenAlexW1559535321
Open LibraryOL7399500M
ISBN9780198298465
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas75

This book investigates one of the oldest questions of legal philosophy —the relationship between law and legitimacy. It analyses the legal theories of three eminent public lawyers of the Weimar era, Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller. Their theories addressed the problems of legal and political order in a crisis-ridden modern society and so they remain highly relevant to contemporary debates about legal order in the age of pluralism. Schmitt, the philosopher of German fascism, has recently received much attention. Kelsen is well-known as one of the main exponents of the philosophy of legal positivism. Heller is virtually unknown outside Germany. The author exposes the dangers of Schmitt's legal philosophy by situating it in the legal context of constitutional crisis to which he responded. He also points out the inadequacies of Kelsen's legal positivism. In a wide-ranging account of the predicaments of contemporary legal and political philosophy, Heller's position is argued to be the most promising of the three

Black letter law · Comparative law · Legal formalism · Legal pluralism · Legal positivism · Legal profession · Legal realism · Legitimacy · Philosophy of law · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Principle of legality · Private law · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · 1881-1973 · 1918-1933 · carl Schmitt (1888-1985) · Germany · hans Kelsen (1881-1973) · Kelsen, hans · Legitimacy of governments · politics and government · Rule of law