Political Romanticism

Described as both the "Hobbes of our age" and as "the philosophical godfather of
Nazism," Carl Schmitt was a brilliant and controversial political theorist whose doctrine of political leadership and criticism of liberal democratic ideals and institutions distinguish him as one of the most original contributors to the theory of modern politics. In Political Romanticism he defends a concept of political action based on notions of good and evil, justice and injustice, and attacks the political passivity entailed by the romanticism of experience.

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Political Romanticism

Described as both the "Hobbes of our age" and as "the philosophical godfather of
Nazism," Carl Schmitt was a brilliant and controversial political theorist whose doctrine of political leadership and criticism of liberal democratic ideals and institutions distinguish him as one of the most original contributors to the theory of modern politics. In Political Romanticism he defends a concept of political action based on notions of good and evil, justice and injustice, and attacks the political passivity entailed by the romanticism of experience.

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Described as both the "Hobbes of our age" and as "the philosophical godfather of
Nazism," Carl Schmitt was a brilliant and controversial political theorist whose doctrine of political leadership and criticism of liberal democratic ideals and institutions distinguish him as one of the most original contributors to the theory of modern politics. In Political Romanticism he defends a concept of political action based on notions of good and evil, justice and injustice, and attacks the political passivity entailed by the romanticism of experience.

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ISBN-13: 9780262691420
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 02/19/1991
Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 220
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Guy Oakes teaches social philosophy at Monmouth College and sociology at the New School for Social Research.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition ix

Translator's Introduction xxiii

Preface 1

Introduction 22

The German conception: political romanticism as an ideology of reaction and restoration 22

The French conception: romanticism as a revolutionary principle; Rousseauism 25

The explanation of revolution in terms of the esprit romantique and the esprit classique 28

The confusion of the concept of political romanticism and the path to a definition 29

1 The Outward Situation 35

The personal political significance of romantic writers in Germany 35

Schlegel's political insignificance 37

Müller's political development: an Anglophile in Göttingen, a feudal and estatist-conservative anticentralist in Berlin, a functionary of the absolutist centralized state in the Tyrol 39

2 The Structure of the Romantic Spirit 51

La recherche de la Réalité 51

The occasionalist structure of romanticism 78

3 Political Romanticism 109

Survey of the development of theories of the state since 1796 109

The difference between the romantic conception of the state and the counterrevolutionary and legitimist conception 115

The state and the king as occasional objects of romantic interest 123

The romantic incapacity for ethical and legal valuation 124

Romanticized ideas in political philosophy 125

Adam Müller's productivity: his mode of argumentation: the rhetorically formed resonance of significant impressions; his antitheses: rhetorical contrasts 127

The occasional character of all romanticized objects 144

Brief indication of the difference between political romanticism and a romantic politics: In the latter, it is the effect and not the cause that is occasional 149

Excursus: the romantic as a political type in the conception of the liberal bourgeoisie, exemplified by David Friedrich Strauss's Julian the Apostate 149

Conclusion: political romanticism as the concomitant emotive response to political events 158

Notes 163

Index 169

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