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Hans Kelsen is commonly associated with legal theory and philosophy
of law. Democracy in Its Essence: Hans Kelsen as a Political
Thinker instead investigates Kelsen's democratic theory as it
developed between the 1920s and 1950s, which challenged the
existence of democracies in many different respects. Kelsen
provided a critical reflection on the strengths and problems of
living within a democratic system, while also defending it against
a series of specific targets: from the Soviet regime and Bolshevism
to European Fascisms, from religious-based conceptions of politics
to those claiming a perfect identity between capitalism and
classical liberal institutions, and chiefly against all those
ideologies claiming to possess objective understanding of what true
freedom and true democracy signify. By seeking what he defined as
the "essence" and "value" of democracy, Kelsen elaborated a
pluralist, relativist, constitutional, proceduralist, and liberal
theory of representative democracy, characterized by a strong
recall to the values of tolerance, responsibility, and respect
toward "the other" as well as to the idea of politics as space for
compromise. In this book, Sara Lagi reconstructs his political
theory as a relevant contribution to the twentieth-century
liberal-democratic tradition of thought, while representing a
stimulating reflection on the meaning and implication of democracy
both as a political system and as a form of co-existence.
Hans Kelsen is commonly associated with legal theory and philosophy
of law. Democracy in Its Essence: Hans Kelsen as a Political
Thinker instead investigates Kelsen's democratic theory as it
developed between the 1920s and 1950s, which challenged the
existence of democracies in many different respects. Kelsen
provided a critical reflection on the strengths and problems of
living within a democratic system, while also defending it against
a series of specific targets: from the Soviet regime and Bolshevism
to European Fascisms, from religious-based conceptions of politics
to those claiming a perfect identity between capitalism and
classical liberal institutions, and chiefly against all those
ideologies claiming to possess objective understanding of what true
freedom and true democracy signify. By seeking what he defined as
the "essence" and "value" of democracy, Kelsen elaborated a
pluralist, relativist, constitutional, proceduralist, and liberal
theory of representative democracy, characterized by a strong
recall to the values of tolerance, responsibility, and respect
toward "the other" as well as to the idea of politics as space for
compromise. In this book, Sara Lagi reconstructs his political
theory as a relevant contribution to the twentieth-century
liberal-democratic tradition of thought, while representing a
stimulating reflection on the meaning and implication of democracy
both as a political system and as a form of co-existence.
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