Articles: Emergency Government Within the Bounds of the Constitution: An Introduction to Carl Schmitt, "The Dictatorship of the Reich president according to Article 48 R.V." / Pentecost: Democratic Sovereignty in Carl Schmitt
Just published: A special issue of "Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory" on "Carl Schmitt's Constitutional Theory" (18 [3], September 2011). It includes the first English translation of Schmitt's "Die Diktatur des Reichspräsidenten nach Art. 48 der Reichsverfassung" ("The Dictatorship of the Reich president according to Art 48 of the Reich constitution": pp. 299-323).
Two articles seem particularly concerned with political theology: Ellen Kennedy (University of Pennsylvania), "Emergency Government Within the Bounds of the Constitution: An Introduction to Carl Schmitt, 'The Dictatorship of the Reich president according to Article 48 R.V.'" (pp. 284-97).
Excerpt: "Germany's first republican constitution belonged to the set of 'liberal-democratic constitutions' that replaced monarchies across Europe after the Great War. What kings and heredity had been for centuries gave way to the principle of democratic sovereignty as self-evident, a belief Carl Schmitt theorized as 'political theology': what God had been to the world, the King had been to the state, and now the people became as the present immanence of meaning."
Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania), "Pentecost: Democratic Sovereignty in Carl Schmitt (pp. 389-402).
Excerpt: "Dictatorship, like monarchy, affirmed the subjective, the individual will, the individual. Schmitt's debt to Hegel is visible here, as is Hegel's political theology. ... His turn to Donoso Cortés reflects his commitment to 'Roman Catholicism as political form' and a more Catholic political theology. Schmitt's religious imperative has been, ironically, attractive to those Christian evangelicals who, committed to the notion of a personal God in a quite different sense, likewise insist on the primacy of the incarnate form of the divine sovereign."
Just published: A special issue of "Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory" on "Carl Schmitt's Constitutional Theory" (18 [3], September 2011). It includes the first English translation of Schmitt's "Die Diktatur des Reichspräsidenten nach Art. 48 der Reichsverfassung" ("The Dictatorship of the Reich president according to Art 48 of the Reich constitution": pp. 299-323).
Two articles seem particularly concerned with political theology: Ellen Kennedy (University of Pennsylvania), "Emergency Government Within the Bounds of the Constitution: An Introduction to Carl Schmitt, 'The Dictatorship of the Reich president according to Article 48 R.V.'" (pp. 284-97).
Excerpt: "Germany's first republican constitution belonged to the set of 'liberal-democratic constitutions' that replaced monarchies across Europe after the Great War. What kings and heredity had been for centuries gave way to the principle of democratic sovereignty as self-evident, a belief Carl Schmitt theorized as 'political theology': what God had been to the world, the King had been to the state, and now the people became as the present immanence of meaning."
Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania), "Pentecost: Democratic Sovereignty in Carl Schmitt (pp. 389-402).
Excerpt: "Dictatorship, like monarchy, affirmed the subjective, the individual will, the individual. Schmitt's debt to Hegel is visible here, as is Hegel's political theology. ... His turn to Donoso Cortés reflects his commitment to 'Roman Catholicism as political form' and a more Catholic political theology. Schmitt's religious imperative has been, ironically, attractive to those Christian evangelicals who, committed to the notion of a personal God in a quite different sense, likewise insist on the primacy of the incarnate form of the divine sovereign."
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