Carl Schmitt on Law and Liberalism

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Focusing on Carl Schmitt's critique of modern liberalism, the book explores his arguments against the Weimar constitution and his call for a strong leader to ensure political unity in Germany. It outlines Schmitt's legal disagreements with contemporaneous scholars from his university days to the rise of Hitler, revealing how these legal debates reflected deeper political criticisms of democracy. The narrative culminates in Schmitt's defense of the Reich during the 1932 constitutional crisis, highlighting the intersection of law and politics in his thought.