The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy
By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and of...
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| description | By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern democracy. A discussion of Weber’s ambivalent diagnosis of modernity and his elitist views on democracy, as they were elaborated especially in the 1910s, sets the groundwork for the study. Against that backdrop, Schmitt’s interwar political thought is interpreted as a form of neo-authoritarian populism, whereas Kelsen evinces robust, though not entirely unproblematic, pluralist consequences. In the conclusion, the author draws on Claude Lefort’s concept of indeterminacy to sketch a potentially more fruitful way than can be gleaned from the interwar German discussions of conceiving the nexus between the elitist, populist and pluralist faces of modern democracy. The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy will be of interest to political theorists, political philosophers, intellectual historians, theoretically oriented political scientists, and legal scholars working in the subfields of constitutional law and legal theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157566, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1603632025-05-24T05:51:10Z The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy Magalhães, Pedro T. Full Fledged Democratization Political Theory Max Weber’s Sociology Political Philosophy Politik Als Beruf Political Legitimacy Schmitt’s Constitutional Theory Social and Political Thought Vice Versa Legal Theory Kelsen’s Pure Theory Hans Kelsen Basic Sociological Terms Max Weber Modern Democratic Rule Carl Schmitt Empirical Democratic Theory Continental Constitutional Law Stinnes Legien Agreement Sovereignty Kelsen’s Theory Political Theology Als Beruf Liberalism Sonderweg Thesis thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory By re-examining the political thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, this book offers a reflection on the nature of modern democracy and the question of its legitimacy. Pedro T. Magalhães shows that present-day elitist, populist and pluralist accounts of democracy owe, in diverse and often complicated ways, an intellectual debt to the interwar era, German-speaking, scholarly and political controversies on the problem(s) of modern democracy. A discussion of Weber’s ambivalent diagnosis of modernity and his elitist views on democracy, as they were elaborated especially in the 1910s, sets the groundwork for the study. Against that backdrop, Schmitt’s interwar political thought is interpreted as a form of neo-authoritarian populism, whereas Kelsen evinces robust, though not entirely unproblematic, pluralist consequences. In the conclusion, the author draws on Claude Lefort’s concept of indeterminacy to sketch a potentially more fruitful way than can be gleaned from the interwar German discussions of conceiving the nexus between the elitist, populist and pluralist faces of modern democracy. The Legitimacy of Modern Democracy will be of interest to political theorists, political philosophers, intellectual historians, theoretically oriented political scientists, and legal scholars working in the subfields of constitutional law and legal theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157566, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license 2025-05-24T05:51:10Z 2025-05-24T05:51:10Z 2025-05-23T08:04:04Z 2020 book ONIX_20250523T093505_9781351654012_75 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102496 9781351654012 9781315157566 9781138068889 9781351654005 9780367644536 9781351653992 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160363 eng Routledge Innovations in Political Theory open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102496/1/9781351654012.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315157566 10.4324/9781315157566 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 724bd953-b6d0-41cb-a0f0-52659c8216a5 9781351654012 9781315157566 9781138068889 9781351654005 9780367644536 9781351653992 Routledge 220 Oxford [...] open access |
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