Carl Schmitt and the Limits of the Modern Liberal State

• Autorzy: Clifford Angell Bates

Warianty tytułu

Carl Schmitt i ograniczenia współczesnego państwa liberalnego

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper looks at Schmitt and his critique of liberalism in terms of the question of how the constitutional structure of the modern state can lead to certain contradictions and problems that arise out of the radicalism of the liberal doctrine advanced by the neo-Kantian legal tradition that dominated in Germany in the early twentieth century. I argue that according to Schmitt a return to Hobbes, as well as other modern political thinkers such as Machiavelli and Bodin, was the only means to correct this radicalisation of liberalism to allow for the survival of politics. Key words: Carl Schmitt, Liberalism, State, Executive Power, Decisionsism, Sovereignty. (original abstract)

W tym artykule przyglądamy się Schmittowi i jego krytyce liberalizmu pod kątem pytania o to, w jaki sposób konstytucyjna struktura współczesnego państwa może prowadzić do pewnych sprzeczności i problemów wynikających z radykalizacji liberalnej doktryny promowanej przez neokantowską tradycję prawną, która dominowała w Niemczech na początku XX wieku. Autor twierdzi, że według Schmitta powrót do Hobbesa, a także innych współczesnych myślicieli politycznych, takich jak Machiavelli i Bodin, był jedynym sposobem na naprawienie tej radykalizacji liberalizmu, aby umożliwić przetrwanie polityki. (abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

State; Executive authority; Liberalism; Sovereignty

PL

Państwo; Władza wykonawcza; Liberalizm; Suwerenność

• Czasopismo: Myśl Ekonomiczna i Polityczna
• Rocznik: 2018
• Numer: nr 3 (62)
• Strony: 17--39

Twórcy

autor

Clifford Angell Bates

• University of Warsaw

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DOI

10.26399/meip.3(62).2018.30/c.a.bates