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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: x, 326 p. 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521133418 (pbk.)
  • 0521133416 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8
LOC classification:
  • JC 421 K14d 2008
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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JC 421 K14d 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000095484

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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.

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