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Comparative History and Legal Theory: Carl Schmitt in the First German Democracy
A study of Carl Schmitt and the first German democracy. It demonstrates how Schmitt believed that comparative history itself could reinvigorate the ailing German state by subtly altering prevailing understandings of the relation of theory and practice in law and politics.
| Author(s) | By Jeffrey Seitzer. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 192 |
| Published in | United States |
| Published | 30 May 2001 |
| Availability | Not yet available |
A study of Carl Schmitt and the first German democracy. It demonstrates how Schmitt believed that comparative history itself could reinvigorate the ailing German state by subtly altering prevailing understandings of the relation of theory and practice in law and politics.
Introduction Retrofitting Liberal Constitutionalism: Constitutional Theory as a Response to the Weimar State Crisis Exorcising the Ghost of Composite States Past: Local Self-Government and Political Stability in the Kaiserreich Guarding the Constitutio
JEFFREY SEITZER has been a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London./e The author of numerous articles on legal and p
