A pioneer in legal and political theory, Schmitt traces the
prehistory of political romanticism by examining its relationship
to revolutionary and reactionary tendencies in modern European
history. Both the partisans of the French Revolution and its most
embittered enemies were numbered among the romantics. During the
movement for German national unity at the beginning of the
nineteenth century, both revolutionaries and reactionaries counted
themselves as romantics. According to Schmitt, the use of the
concept to designate opposed political positions results from the
character of political romanticism: its unpredictable quality and
lack of commitment to any substantive political position. The
romantic person acts in such a way that his imagination can be
affected. He acts insofar as he is moved. Thus an action is not a
performance or something one does, but rather an affect or a mood,
something one feels. The product of an action is not a result that
can be evaluated according to moral standards, but rather an
emotional experience that can be judged only in aesthetic and
emotive terms. These observations lead Schmitt to a profound
reflection on the shortcomings of liberal politics. Apart from the
liberal rule of law and its institution of an autonomous private
sphere, the romantic inner sanctum of purely personal experience
could not exist. Without the security of the private realm, the
romantic imagination would be subject to unpredictable incursions.
Only in a bourgeois world can the individual become both absolutely
sovereign and thoroughly privatized: a master builder in the
cathedral of his personality. An adequate political order cannot be
maintained on such a tolerant individualism, concludes Schmitt.
General
Imprint: |
AldineTransaction
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2010 |
First published: |
October 2010 |
Authors: |
Carl Schmitt
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Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
230 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4128-1472-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
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LSN: |
1-4128-1472-3 |
Barcode: |
9781412814720 |
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