TY  - BOOK
AU  - Magalhães, Pedro T.
AB  - By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern democracy. A discussion of Weber’s ambivalent diagnosis of modernity and his elitist views on democracy, as they were elaborated especially in the 1910s, sets the groundwork for the study. Against that backdrop, Schmitt’s interwar political thought is interpreted as a form of neo-authoritarian populism, whereas Kelsen evinces robust, though not entirely unproblematic, pluralist consequences. In the conclusion, the author draws on Claude Lefort’s concept of indeterminacy to sketch a potentially more fruitful way than can be gleaned from the interwar German discussions of conceiving the nexus between the elitist, populist and pluralist faces of modern democracy. The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy will be of interest to political theorists, political philosophers, intellectual historians, theoretically oriented political scientists, and legal scholars working in the subfields of constitutional law and legal theory.
DO  - 10.4324/9781315157566
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210521_9781351654012_5
KW  - Carl Schmitt
KW  - Continental Constitutional Law
KW  - German Politics
KW  - Hans Kelsen
KW  - History of European Ideas
KW  - Jacques Rousseau
KW  - Legal Theory
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Max Weber
KW  - Political Legitimacy
KW  - Political Order
KW  - Political Philosophy
KW  - Political Theology
KW  - Political Theory
KW  - Social and Political Thought
KW  - Social Theory
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Theory of the State
KW  - Weimar Republic
KW  - Weltanschauung
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f523ab72-aade-4c65-8adc-9f2dc4753463/9781351654012.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48770
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9781351654012
SN  - 9781138068889
SN  - 9781315157566
SN  - 9780367644536
TI  - The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy : A Study on the Political Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen
ER  - 
