Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Why Carl Schmitt? 1
6. PART I. POLITICAL THEORY AND LAW
7. Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Systematic Reconstruction and Countercriticism 23
8. The Concept of the Political: A Key to Understanding Carl Schmitt's Constitutional Theory 37
9. From Legitimacy to Dictatorship-and Back Again: Leo Strauss's Critique of the Anti-Liberalism of Carl Schmitt 56
10. Hostis Not Inimicus: Toward a Theory of the Public in the Work of Carl Schmitt 92
11. Pluralism and the Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy 109
12. Liberalism as a "Metaphysical System": The Methodological Structure of Carl Schmitt's Critique of Political Rationalism 131
13. Carl Schmitt and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy 159
14. PART II. LECAL THEORY AND POLITICS
15. Carl Schmitt on Sovereignty and Constituent Power 179
16. The 1933 "Break" in Carl Schmitt's Theory 196
17. The Dilemmas of Dictatorship: Carl Schmi~t and Constitutional Emergency Powers 217
18. Revolutions and Constitutions: Hannah Arendt's Challenge to Carl Schmitt 252
19. Carl Schmitt's Internal Critique of Liberal Constitutionalism: Verfassungslehre as a Response to the Weimar State Crisis 281
20. Notes on Contributors 313
21. Index 315