The materials translated here provide the intellectual background to Carl Schmitt's political and constitutional theory. This book will be of interest to legal and constitutional theorists, political theorists and historians of political thought more generally, and it will be re…
"Carl Schmitt and the Problem of the Realization of Law 1. The famous pithy aphorisms that Carl Schmitt used to open his major works - 'the sovereign is he who decides on the exception', 'the concept of the state presupposes the concept of the political', etc. - have become a pa…
This dissertation examines war and peace in the political thought of Francis Bacon, moving from internal warfare (civil war) outward via wars of expansion, attrition, and empire to Bacon’s conception of peace. The first chapter considers Bacon’s views of the causes of civil war …