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

Publication Data

• Title Democracy and the politics of the extraordinary : Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt
• Author Andreas Kalyvas
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Weber, Max, 1864-1920 :: Political and social views
• Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985 :: Political and social views
• Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 :: Political and social views
• Pak Organization of Workers in Educational Research
• Democracy
• 014621018

Democracy and the politics of the extraordinary : Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt by Andreas Kalyvas. ISBN 9780521877688. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.