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Political Romanticism (Paperback, New Ed)
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Political Romanticism (Paperback, New Ed)
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Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), the author of such books as Political
Theology and The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (both published
in English by The MIT Press), was one of the leading political and
legal theorists of the twentieth century. His critical discussions
of liberal democratic ideals and institutions continue to arouse
controversy, but even his opponents concede his uncanny sense for
the basic problems of modern politics. Political Romanticism is a
historical study that, like all of Schmitt's major works, offers a
fundamental political critique. In it, he defends a concept of
political action based on notions of good and evil, justice and
injustice, and attacks the political passivity entailed by the
romanticization of experience. The book has three strands. The
first is an attack on received notions of the origins of the
Romantic Movement. Schmitt argues that this movement represents a
secularization, subjectification, and privatization in which God is
replaced by the emancipated, private individual of the bourgeois
social order. The second is an assault on political romanticism
that includes a broader attack on the new European bourgeoisie,
which Schmitt characterizes as the historical bearer of the
movement. The third strand is a defense of political conservatism
and a refutation of the view that political romanticism is
intrinsically linked with romanticism. Here Schmitt argues that the
political romantic is tied not to positions but to aesthetics, and
can therefore as easily become a Danton as a Frederick the Great.
Guy Oakes's introduction places the book in historical context and
also suggests its continuing relevance through his discussion of
the latest outcropping of political romanticism in the late 1960s,
intriguingly brought out in his example of Norman Mailer as a
political romantic. Political Romanticism is included in the series
Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas
McCarthy.
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