Pedro T Magalhães
Biographic Data
| ID | 2789308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pedro T Magalhães |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pedro T |
| FAMILY NAME | Magalhães |
| SIGNATURE | MAGALHÃES P T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7188-1250 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond the reactionary sea change
This article examines the migration of reactionary antimodern thought from Europe to the United States of America. It assesses the impact that the work of two antimodern thinkers, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, had on two distinct domains of American thought, namely, conservative political ideology and academic political science. The paper argues that the antimodern perspective, eagerly absorbed by many intellectuals, has pushed American conserva…
Promise and failure
This article analyses the role played by the concept of nation in the interwar writings of Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) and Eric Voegelin (1901-1985). It contends that, although these conservative thinkers were drawn in different ways to the anti-progressive potential of nationalist ideas, the centre of their political and theoretical horizons in that period is occupied by the problems of political unity and authority. Therefore, their nationalism is…
Science, Relativism and Pluralism
This chapter contains an exposition and a critical assessment of Hans Kelsen’s conception of modern democracy, which takes into account Kelsen’s theory of law and legal science—undoubtedly his chief intellectual project—but does not reduce the former to the latter. In doing so, it will also establish relevant comparisons and contrasts to the intellectual and political orientations of Max Weber and Carl Schmitt, which were the subject matter of pr…
Max Weber's Diagnosis of Modernity and the Ambivalence of Modern Democracy
This chapter presents and analyses Max Weber’s conception of modern democracy in the large scope of his œuvre . It does so by (1) considering his narrative of modernity and the conception of history it stems from; (2) examining his notions of power, domination and authority, especially with regard to the ideal types of legitimate rule developed in his sociology; (3) assessing his positions in the context of the democratic reconstruction of German…
Elitism, Populism and Pluralism
This conclusion draws on the analysis of Max Weber’s, Carl Schmitt’s and Hans Kelsen’s views on modern democracy, carried out in this volume’s main chapters, to assess the origins, insights and limits of the three chief theoretical models that mainstream political science developed to interpret democracy in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows that contemporary elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse an…
The Neo-Authoritarian Populism of Carl Schmitt
This chapter interprets Carl Schmitt’s interwar political thought as a form of neo-authoritarian populism. The interpretation proceeds in three steps. First, we review some of the works Schmitt wrote before and during the First World War to delineate his intellectual position at the onset of Weimar’s democratic experience. Second, we reconstruct his neo-authoritarian vision of modern politics based on an analysis of two works from the early 1920s…
The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy
By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern dem…
A Contingent Affinity
The thesis that the theory of charismatic-plebiscitary democracy developed by Max Weber in the wake of the Weimar Republic was developed to its ultimate consequences by Carl Schmitt in the final crisis of Weimar has been hotly debated since it was first advanced in the 1950s. This paper proposes a fresh look at the controversy. By comparing both authors' concepts of politics in their relation to the problem of modernity, it argues that the Weber-…
O problema da representação e a construção do povo
O presente artigo procura reflectir sobre os problemas da representacao e da construcao de um sujeito politico colectivo em sede de teoria da democracia. Atraves da revisitacao do debate weimariano entre Carl Schmitt e Hans Kelsen, intentaremos demonstrar que o conceito de representacao, frequentemente ignorado ou subapreciado pela literatura, constitui estimulante ponto de partida para pensar as dimensoes colectiva e agonistica da politica democ…
Promise and failure
This article analyses the role played by the concept of nation in the interwar writings of Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) and Eric Voegelin (1901-1985). It contends that, although these conservative thinkers were drawn in different ways to the anti-progressive potential of nationalist ideas, the centre of their political and theoretical horizons in that period is occupied by the problems of political unity and authority. Therefore, their nationalism is…
Beyond the reactionary sea change
This article examines the migration of reactionary antimodern thought from Europe to the United States of America. It assesses the impact that the work of two antimodern thinkers, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, had on two distinct domains of American thought, namely, conservative political ideology and academic political science. The paper argues that the antimodern perspective, eagerly absorbed by many intellectuals, has pushed American conserva…
O problema da representação e a construção do povo
O presente artigo procura reflectir sobre os problemas da representacao e da construcao de um sujeito politico colectivo em sede de teoria da democracia. Atraves da revisitacao do debate weimariano entre Carl Schmitt e Hans Kelsen, intentaremos demonstrar que o conceito de representacao, frequentemente ignorado ou subapreciado pela literatura, constitui estimulante ponto de partida para pensar as dimensoes colectiva e agonistica da politica democ…
A Contingent Affinity
The thesis that the theory of charismatic-plebiscitary democracy developed by Max Weber in the wake of the Weimar Republic was developed to its ultimate consequences by Carl Schmitt in the final crisis of Weimar has been hotly debated since it was first advanced in the 1950s. This paper proposes a fresh look at the controversy. By comparing both authors' concepts of politics in their relation to the problem of modernity, it argues that the Weber-…
Science, Relativism and Pluralism
This chapter contains an exposition and a critical assessment of Hans Kelsen’s conception of modern democracy, which takes into account Kelsen’s theory of law and legal science—undoubtedly his chief intellectual project—but does not reduce the former to the latter. In doing so, it will also establish relevant comparisons and contrasts to the intellectual and political orientations of Max Weber and Carl Schmitt, which were the subject matter of pr…
Max Weber's Diagnosis of Modernity and the Ambivalence of Modern Democracy
This chapter presents and analyses Max Weber’s conception of modern democracy in the large scope of his œuvre . It does so by (1) considering his narrative of modernity and the conception of history it stems from; (2) examining his notions of power, domination and authority, especially with regard to the ideal types of legitimate rule developed in his sociology; (3) assessing his positions in the context of the democratic reconstruction of German…
Elitism, Populism and Pluralism
This conclusion draws on the analysis of Max Weber’s, Carl Schmitt’s and Hans Kelsen’s views on modern democracy, carried out in this volume’s main chapters, to assess the origins, insights and limits of the three chief theoretical models that mainstream political science developed to interpret democracy in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows that contemporary elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse an…
The Neo-Authoritarian Populism of Carl Schmitt
This chapter interprets Carl Schmitt’s interwar political thought as a form of neo-authoritarian populism. The interpretation proceeds in three steps. First, we review some of the works Schmitt wrote before and during the First World War to delineate his intellectual position at the onset of Weimar’s democratic experience. Second, we reconstruct his neo-authoritarian vision of modern politics based on an analysis of two works from the early 1920s…
The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy
By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern dem…
Beyond the reactionary sea change
This article examines the migration of reactionary antimodern thought from Europe to the United States of America. It assesses the impact that the work of two antimodern thinkers, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, had on two distinct domains of American thought, namely, conservative political ideology and academic political science. The paper argues that the antimodern perspective, eagerly absorbed by many intellectuals, has pushed American conserva…
Promise and failure
This article analyses the role played by the concept of nation in the interwar writings of Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) and Eric Voegelin (1901-1985). It contends that, although these conservative thinkers were drawn in different ways to the anti-progressive potential of nationalist ideas, the centre of their political and theoretical horizons in that period is occupied by the problems of political unity and authority. Therefore, their nationalism is…
Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Modernity (3 works)