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The Challenge of Carl Schmitt

Edited by Chantal Mouffe
A thought-provoking collection of responses to Carl Schmitt in a “post-political” age.

Carl Schmitt’s thought serves as a warning against the dangers of complacency entailed by triumphant liberalism. His conception of politics is a sharp challenge to those who believe that the blurring of frontiers between the left and right and the increasing mobilization of political discourse constitute great advances for democracy. Schmitt reminds us forcefully that the essence of politics is a struggle and that the distinction between friend and enemy cannot be abolished.

 

With contributions by Grigoris Ananiadis, Agostino Carrino, Catherine Colliot-Thélène, Jorge E. Dotti, David Dyzenhaus, Paul Hirst, Jean-François Kervégan, Chantal Mouffe, Ulrich K. Preuss, Carl Schmitt, and Slavoj Žižek

Paperback, 228 pages

ISBN: 9781859842447

September 1999

$24.95 / £19.99

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