Carl Schmitt's magnum opus, "Constitutional Theory," was originally published in 1928 and has been in print in German ever since. This volume makes Schmitt's masterpiece of comparative constitutionalism available to English-language readers for the first time. Schmitt is considered by many to be one of the most original--and, because of his collaboration with the Nazi party, controversial--political thinkers of the twentieth century. In "Constitutional Theory," Schmitt provides a highly distinctive and provocative interpretation of the Weimar Constitution. At the center of this interpretation...

One of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt is a deeply controversial figure who has been labeled both Nazi sympathizer and modern-day Thomas Hobbes. First published in 1938, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes used the Enlightenment philosopher s enduring symbol of the protective Leviathan to address the nature of modern statehood. A work that predicted the demise of the Third Reich and that still holds relevance in today s security-obsessed society, this volume will be essential reading for students and scholars of...

Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt's most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work.

Written shortly after the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Schmitt analyses the problem of the state of emergency and the power of the Reichsprasident in declaring it. Dictatorship, Schmitt argues, is a necessary legal institution in constitutional law and has been wrongly portrayed as just the arbitrary rule of a so-called dictator.

Dictatorship is an essential book for understanding the work of Carl...

La robotique appliquee a la rehabilitation requiert des manipulateurs specifiques: les ortheses fonctionnelles. Ce sont des appareils orthopediques equipes de moteurs et de capteurs qui permettent une assistance des mouvements locomoteurs. Ces ortheses fonctionnelles doivent etre capables de reproduire des trajectoires articulaires physiologiques et de simuler les charges segmentaires d''un mouvement corporel comme le pedalage ou la poussee des jambes. Des performances dynamiques elevees sont donc recherchees avec de petits actionneurs permettant une integration mecanique acceptable pour...

Carl Schmitt hat in vielen Phasen seines Lebens Tagebuchaufzeichnungen gemacht. Nachdem er ab Februar 1915 als Kriegsfreiwilliger in Munchen zunachst als Rekrut eine Grundausbildung erhielt, war er bald danach im Stellv. Generalkommando des I. bayerischen Armeekorps tatig. Dort leitete er bis 1919 ein Subreferat, das sich mit Genehmigung oder Verbot der Ein- und Ausfuhr von politisch brisanten Schriften, der Beobachtung der Friedensbewegung und der Verbreitung feindlicher Propagandatexte u. a. befasste. Die jetzt zum ersten Mal veroffentlichten Tagebucheintragungen gewahren wie die bereits...

Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War, The Groraum Order of International Law, and The International Crime of the War of Aggression and the Principle "Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege".

Written between 1937 and 1945, these works articulate Schmitt's concerns throughout this period of war and crisis, addressing the major failings of the League of Nations, and presenting Schmitt's own conceptual history of these years...

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.