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Argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing one-self for the state. This edition highlights the author's intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state.

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"The best introduction to Schmitt's thought." - Mark Lilla, New York Review of Books"

The Concept of the Political Expanded Edition

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    A Paperback / softback by Carl Schmitt, George Schwab, Tracy B. Strong

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 May 2007
      ISBN-13 9780226738925
      978-0226738925
      ISBN-10 0226738922
      Also in:
      Politics, Philosophy & Society Philosophy Social and political philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing one-self for the state. This edition highlights the author's intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state.

      Trade Review
      "The best introduction to Schmitt's thought." - Mark Lilla, New York Review of Books"

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