Democracy and the politics of the extraordinary Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt - Kalyvas, Andreas 1967-; Cambridge Books Online (Online service). (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Charismatic politics and the symbolic foundations of power : Max Weber -- Revisiting Weber's concept of the political -- Charismatic politics -- Disavowing charismatic politics -- The exception and constitutional politics : Carl Schmitt -- The popular constituent sovereign and the pure theory of democratic legitimacy -- Toward a theory of democratic constitutionalism -- The extra-institutional sovereign -- Taming the extraordinary : Hannah Arendt -- Extraordinary beginnings I : Arendt's critique of Schmitt -- Extraordinary beginnings II : Arendt's response to Schmitt -- The republic of councils : beyond democracy and liberalism? -- Conclusion: A democratic theory of the extraordinary
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Keywords: Weber, Max -- 1864-1920 -- Political and social views; Schmitt, Carl -- 1888-1985 -- Political and social views; Arendt, Hannah -- 1906-1975 -- Political and social views; Pak Organization of Workers in Educational Research; Democracy; Political science -- Philosophy