Carl Schmitt, Mao Zedong and the Politics of Transition

Carl Schmitt, Mao Zedong and the Politics of Transition

Author: Qi Zheng

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1137466596

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book develops a new way of reading and benefiting from Schmitt's legal and political theories. It explores Schmitt's theories from the perspective of what I refer to as the politics of transition. It also contributes to identifying the real theoretical relationship between Schmitt and Mao.


Carl Schmitt, Mao Zedong and the Politics of Transition

Carl Schmitt, Mao Zedong and the Politics of Transition

Author: Qi Zheng

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1137466596

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book develops a new way of reading and benefiting from Schmitt's legal and political theories. It explores Schmitt's theories from the perspective of what I refer to as the politics of transition. It also contributes to identifying the real theoretical relationship between Schmitt and Mao.


Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World

Author: Kai Marchal

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2017-02-22

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1498536271

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political examines the reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of both Schmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, the German-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after his emigration to the United States, are highly controversial. Since the 1990s, however, these thinkers have had a powerful resonance for Chinese scholars. Today, when Chinese intellectuals debate the Chinese state, the future role of China in the world, the liberal international order, and even the meaning of Confucian civilization, they often employ Schmittian and Straussian concepts like “the political,” “friend–enemy,” “state of exception,” “liberal education,” and “natural right.” The very possibility of a genuine Chinese political theory is often thought to be tied to the legacy of these two thinkers. This volume explores this complex phenomenon with a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach. The twelve essays in this volume are written from a range of perspectives by philosophers, political theorists, historians, and legal scholars from China, Germany, Taiwan, and the United States.


Sovereignty in Action

Sovereignty in Action

Author: Bas Leijssenaar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-18

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1108483518

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sovereignty, originally the figure of 'sovereign', then the state, today meets new challenges of globalization and privatization of power.


Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Liberalism

Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Liberalism

Author: Renato Cristi

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Within Germany, Carl Schmitt's status as a political thinker is on a par with Machiavelli and Hobbes. With the rise in neo-conservatism and authoritarian liberalism in less developed countries such as Chile and Singapore, Renato Christi believes Schmitt's theories will become of considerable importance. Nazi Third Reich. His political theories provide an insight into the nature of Conservatism. well as extrapolate possibilities for the future.


The Politics and Governance of Blame

The Politics and Governance of Blame

Author: Matthew Flinders

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-06-24

Total Pages: 801

ISBN-13: 0198896409

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From coping with Covid-19 through to manging climate change, from Brexit through to the barricading of Congress, from democratic disaffection to populist pressures, from historical injustices to contemporary social inequalities, and from scapegoating through to sacrificial lambs... the common thread linking each of these themes and many more is an emphasis on blame. But how do we know who or what is to blame? How do politicians engage in blame-avoidance strategies? How can blaming backfire or boomerang? Are there situations in which politicians might want to be blamed? What is the relationship between avoiding blame and claiming credit? How do developments in relation to machine learning and algorithmic governance affect blame-based assumptions? By focusing on the politics and governance of blame from a range of disciplines, perspectives, and standpoints this volume engages with all these questions and many more. Distinctive contributions include an emphasis on peacekeeping and public diplomacy, on source-credibility and anthropological explanations, on cultural bias and on expert opinions, on polarisation and (de)politicisation, and on trust and post-truth politics. With contributions from the world's leading scholars and emerging research leaders, this volume not only develops the theoretical, disciplinary, empirical, and normative boundaries of blame-based analyses but it also identifies new research agendas and asks distinctive and original questions about the politics and governance of blame.


Carl Schmitt

Carl Schmitt

Author: Reinhard Mehring

Publisher: Polity

Published: 2022-01-18

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 9780745652252

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Carl Schmitt is one of the most widely read and influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. His fundamental works on friend and enemy, legality and legitimacy, dictatorship, political theology and the concept of the political are read today with great interest by everyone from conservative Catholic theologians to radical political thinkers on the left. In his private life, however, Schmitt was haunted by the demons of his wild anti-Semitism, his self-destructive and compulsive sexuality and his deep-seated resentment against the complacency of bourgeois life. As a young man from a modest background, full of social envy, he succeeded in making his way to the top of the academic world in Germany, and yet he never felt at home in the academic establishment and among those of high social standing. When the Nazis seized power, Schmitt was susceptible to their ideology. He broke with his Jewish friends, joined the Nazi Party in May 1933 and lent a helping hand to Hitler, thereby becoming deeply entangled with the regime. Schmitt was irrevocably compromised by his role as the ‘crown jurist’ of the Third Reich. After the war, he led a secluded life in his home town in the Sauerland and became a key background figure in the intellectual scene of postwar Germany. Reinhard Mehring’s outstanding biography is the most comprehensive work available on the life and work of Carl Schmitt. Based on thorough research and using new sources that were previously unavailable, Mehring portrays Schmitt as a Shakespearean figure at the centre of the German catastrophe.


Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought

Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought

Author: Lee Trepanier

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-06-22

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1498598625

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The rise of Asia in global affairs has forced western thinkers to rethink their assumptions, theories, and conclusions about the region. Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought brings together a mixture of established and rising scholars from both Asia and the West to reflect upon the political philosopher’s thought about China, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, and India. From Voegelin’s writings, readers will not only understand how Voegelin’s approach can illuminate the fundamental principles and issues about Asia but also what are the challenges and possibilities that Asia offers in the twentieth-first century. For those who want to move past the superficial commentary and clichés about Asia, Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought is the book for you.


The End of Law

The End of Law

Author: William E. Scheuerman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-10-18

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1786611562

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Scholarly and political interest in the work of the controversial twentieth century German thinker Carl Schmitt has exploded in the 20 years since William E. Scheuerman’s important book was first published. However, Scheuerman’s work remains distinctive. Firstly, it focuses directly on Schmitt’s complex ideas about law, situating his views within broader debates about the rule of law and its fate. The volume shows how every facet of his political thinking was decisively shaped by his legal reflections. Secondly, the volume takes Schmitt’s Nazi-era political and legal writings no less seriously. Finally, the volume offers a series of studies on figures in postwar US political thought (Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter), demonstrating how Schmitt shaped their own influential theories. This timely second edition underscores how and why the recent growth of interest in Schmitt has been prompted by political developments, for example, debates about counterterrorism and emergency government, and the rise of authoritarian populism.


Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations

Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations

Author: Samantha Cooke

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-28

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 3030849384

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book seeks to reposition international relations (IR) theory by providing insights into non-Western concepts and theories. By engaging with understandings of power, identity, the state and the individual from a range of states outside of the Western hemisphere, the contributors to this book introduce new methods for understanding aspects of IR in context considerate ways. Engagements with Western theories and cases highlight how we need to reposition traditional understandings to allow non-Western approaches to IR develop alongside and inform their Western counterparts. Moreover, the book reinforces the need to move beyond the traditionally used Western-centric lenses without removing them completely, instead it advocates a harmonisation between them to reduce generalisations across the local, state and regional levels.