Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. The Destruction of Weimar Democracy and the Debate on Legality and Legitimacy
6. ONE. The Decay of German Democracy 29
7. TWO. Legality and Legitimacy 44
8. THREE. Remarks on Carl Schmitt's Legality and Legitimacy 64
9. PART II. Law and Politics in the Authoritarian State
10. FOUR. The Change in the Function of Law in Modern Society1 101
11. FIVE. State Structure and Law in the Third Reich 142
12. SIX. Criminal Law in National Socialist Germany 172
13. PART III. Toward a Critical Democratic Theory
14. SEVEN. The Concept of Political Freedom' 195
15. EIGHT. Labor Law in Modern Society1 231
16. NINE. The Rechtsstaat as Magic Wall 243
17. INDEX 265