Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Herman Heller in Weimar - Hardcover

Dyzenhaus, David

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ISBN 10: 0198260628 ISBN 13: 9780198260622

Verlag: Clarendon Press, 1997

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This work investigates one of the oldest questions of legal philosophy - the relationship between law and legitimacy. It analyzes the legal theories of three eminent public lawyers of the Weimar era, Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller. Their theories addressed the problems of legal and political order in a crisis-ridden modern society and so they remain highly relevant to contemporary debates about legal order in the age of pluralism. Schmitt, the philosopher of German fascism, has recently received much attention. Kelsen is well-known as one of the main exponents of the philosophy of legal positivism. Heller is virtually unknown outside Germany. Dyzenhaus exposes the dangers of Schmitt's legal philosophy by situating it in the legal context of consitutional crisis to which he responded. He also points out the severe inadequacies of Kelsen's legal positivism. In a wide-ranging account of the predicaments of contemporary legal and political philosophy, Heller's position is argued to be the most promising of the three.

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• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0198260628
• ISBN 13: 9780198260622
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298