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dc.contributor.authorMagalhães, Pedro T.
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-21T15:36:34Z
dc.date.available2021-05-21T15:36:34Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20210521_9781351654012_5
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48770
dc.description.abstractBy 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Innovations in Political Theory
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare & social services::JKSN Social work
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and governmenten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSN Social worken_US
dc.subject.otherCarl Schmitt
dc.subject.otherContinental Constitutional Law
dc.subject.otherGerman Politics
dc.subject.otherHans Kelsen
dc.subject.otherHistory of European Ideas
dc.subject.otherJacques Rousseau
dc.subject.otherLegal Theory
dc.subject.otherLiberalism
dc.subject.otherMax Weber
dc.subject.otherPolitical Legitimacy
dc.subject.otherPolitical Order
dc.subject.otherPolitical Philosophy
dc.subject.otherPolitical Theology
dc.subject.otherPolitical Theory
dc.subject.otherSocial and Political Thought
dc.subject.otherSocial Theory
dc.subject.otherSovereignty
dc.subject.otherTheory of the State
dc.subject.otherWeimar Republic
dc.subject.otherWeltanschauung
dc.titleThe Legitimacy of Modern Democracy
dc.title.alternativeA Study on the Political Thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315157566
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oapen.relation.isbn9781351654012
oapen.relation.isbn9781138068889
oapen.relation.isbn9781315157566
oapen.relation.isbn9780367644536
oapen.imprintRoutledge
oapen.pages220
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: University of Helsinki
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