Dictatorship

Dictatorship

Now available in English for the first time, <i>Dictatorship</i> is Carl Schmitt€s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. <br /> <br /> Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and the power of the Reichspr¤sident in declaring it. Dictatorship, Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutional law and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of a so-called dictator. <br /> <br /> <i>Dictatorship</i> is an essential book for understanding the work of Carl Schmitt and a major contribution to the modern theory of a democratic, constitutional state. And despite being written in the early part of the twentieth century, it speaks with remarkable prescience to our contemporary political concerns.