This important new book places Carl Schmitt's critique of liberal
political theory in a broader historical context than is usually
done. His belief in the centrality of the European state since the
seventeenth century derives from various sources, including
medieval (Scholastic) theology and nineteenth century
(post-Hegelian) social and political theory. Schmitt's famed
'political theology' aims at justifying the necessity of a strong
secular state as the safeguard of a political community against the
encroachment of legally protected interest groups that shield
themselves behind pre-political rights. William Rasch neither
condemns nor champions Schmitt's various attacks on liberalism, but
does insist that the tension between 'society' as the realm of
individual rights to pursue private pleasures and the 'state' as
the placeholder for something traditionally called the common good
is a conundrum that is as important now as it was during the Weimar
era in Germany. Reappraisal of some of the pillars of liberal dogma
are as much in order as are fears of their demise.
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