Schmitt's Political Thought

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ID11051182
AuthorsJ Freund (0000-0002-3586-2095), James C Freund (corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume1995
Issue102
Pages11-42
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTelos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X
PublisherTelos Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3817/1295102011
OpenAlexW2333400453
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Carl Schmitt was what in German is called a Staatsrechtler, i.e., a specialist in public law (especially constitutional and international law). This is how he described himself. But he went beyond the confines of his discipline, asking questions about the global phenomenon of politics in terms of both its statist particularities and its general characteristics. This did not prevent him from also reflecting on the nature of law, as exemplified in his treatise on the three ways of conceptualizing it — as norm, decision and order, i.e., as a mode of behavior, a judgment, and a means of organization. However, none of its modalities is exclusive of the others

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