Dictatorship

NowavailableinEnglishforthefirsttime,DictatorshipisCarlSchmitt’smostscholarlybookandarguablyaparadigmforhisentirework.WrittenshortlyaftertheRussianRevolutionandtheFirstWorldWar,SchmittanalysestheproblemofthestateofemergencyandthepoweroftheReichspr?sidentindeclaringit.Dictatorship,Schmittargues,isanecessarylegalinstitutioninconstitutionallawandhasbeenwronglyportrayedasjustthearbitraryruleofaso-calleddictator.DictatorshipisanessentialbookforunderstandingtheworkofCarlSchmittandamajorcontributiontothemoderntheoryofademocratic,constitutionalstate.Anddespitebeingwrittenintheearlypartofthetwentiethcentury,itspeakswithremarkablepresciencetoourcontemporarypoliticalconcerns.