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Democracy and the politics of the extraordinary : Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalyvas, Andreas, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Democracy.
Pak Organization of Workers in Educational Research.
Political science > Philosophy.
Weber, Max, > 1864-1920 > Political and social views.
Schmitt, Carl, > 1888-1985 > Political and social views.
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975 > Political and social views.
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Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Charismatic politics and the symbolic foundations of power : Max Weber
  • Revisiting Weber's concept of the political
  • Charismatic politics
  • Disavowing charismatic politics
  • The exception and constitutional politics : Carl Schmitt
  • The popular constituent sovereign and the pure theory of democratic legitimacy
  • Toward a theory of democratic constitutionalism
  • The extra-institutional sovereign
  • Taming the extraordinary : Hannah Arendt
  • Extraordinary beginnings I : Arendt's critique of Schmitt
  • Extraordinary beginnings II : Arendt's response to Schmitt
  • The republic of councils : beyond democracy and liberalism?
  • Conclusion: A democratic theory of the extraordinary.