A Philosophy of Concrete Life
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225

Carl Schmitt's work - consisting of polemical moves in immediate intellectual and political contexts - is not usually thought of as forming a recognizable system. A Philosophy of Concrete Life challenges this interpretation. In this book, the author demonstrates that there is indeed a common metaphysical core passing through Schmitt's work as a whole. On account of this metaphysical core, the author calls Schmitt's thought a «philosophy of the extreme», thus emphasizing its embeddedness in the late modern tradition of philosophical extremism from Kierkegaard to Foucault. Despite this strictly philosophical objective, however, the book is also a lucid presentation of all of Schmitt's central ideas and concepts from the 1920's to the 1960's, offering a comprehensible introduction to the work of this controversial political thinker.

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  • : 9783039109630
  • : Engels
  • : Paperback
  • : 225
  • : april 2006
  • : 304
  • : 149 x 277 x 14 mm.
  • : Berner Reihe Philosophischer Studien
  • : Fenomenologie en existentialisme; Jurisprudentie en algemene onderwerpen; Politieke ideologieën; Politieke wetenschap en theorie; Sociale en politieke filosofie