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The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom
The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval Europe. Through a set of annotated translations of key contemporary sources, the book presents the downfall of the Frankish kingdom of Lotharingia as a case study in early medieval politics, equipping readers to develop their own independent interpretations. The book tracks the twists and turns of the scandal as it unfolded over a crucial decade and a half in the ninth century. Drawing on primary sources such as letters, material culture, and secret treaties, The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom offers readers a sharply defined window into one of the most dramatic episodes in Carolingian history, rich with insights on the workings of early medieval society.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism
This comprehensive research companion examines the theory, practice and historical development of the principle of federalism from the ancient period to the contemporary world. It provides a range of interpretations and integrates theoretical and practical aspects of federalism studies more fully than is usually the case. The volume identifies and examines nascent conceptions of the federal idea in ancient and medieval history and political thought before considering the roots of modern federalism in the ideas of a number of important European political theorists of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. The contributors focus on the development and institutionalization of the principle...
Kant on Culture, Happiness and Civilization
This book joins the contemporary recovery of Kant’s empirical works to highlight the relevance of his concept of culture for understanding the sources of various characteristic modern dilemmas, such as the tension between culture and happiness, the morally ambivalent nature of cultural progress, or the existing conflicts between a factual plurality of cultures and the historical forces pressing toward a universal civilization. The book will be of special interest for Kantian scholars, moral and political philosophers, as well as philosophers of culture.
Carl Schmitt Between Technological Rationality and Theology
Carl Schmitt, one of the most influential legal and political thinkers of the twentieth century, is known chiefly for his work on international law, sovereignty, and his doctrine of political exception. This book argues that greater prominence should be given to his early work in legal studies. Schmitt himself repeatedly identified as a jurist, and Hugo E. Herrera demonstrates how for Schmitt, law plays a key role as an intermediary between ideal, conceptual theory and the complexity of practical, concrete situations. Law is concerned precisely with balancing the extremes of theory and reality, and in this respect, Schmitt associates it with philosophical thinking broadly as being able to understand and explain the tensions in human experience. Reviewing and analyzing prevailing interpretations of Schmitt by Jacques Derrida, Heinrich Meier, and others, Herrera argues that the importance of Schmitt's legal framework is both significant and overlooked.
The Sublime Perversion of Capital
In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current discussions of uneven development and contemporary topics in Marxist theory and historiography. Walker locates the debate's culmination in the work of Uno Kōzō, whose investigations into the development of capitalism and the commodification of labor power are essential for rethinking the national question in Marxist theory. Walker's analysis of Uno and the Japanese debate strips Marxist historiography of its Eurocentric focus, showing how Marxist thought was globalized from the start. In analyzing the little-heralded tradition of Japanese Marxist theory alongside Marx himself, Walker not only offers new insights into the transition to capitalism, the rise of globalization, and the relation between capital and the formation of the nation-state; he provides new ways to break Marxist theory's impasse with postcolonial studies and critical theory.
Liberal Disorder, States of Exception, and Populist Politics
Liberal democracy is in trouble. This volume considers the crosscutting causes and manifestations of the current crisis facing the liberal order. Over the last decade, liberal democracy has come under mounting pressure in many unanticipated ways. In response to seemingly endless crisis conditions, governments have turned with alarming frequency to extraordinary emergency powers derogating the rule of law and democratic processes. The shifting interconnections between new technologies and public power have raised questions about threats posed to democratic values and norms. Finally, the liberal order has been challenged by authoritarian and populist forces promoting anti- pluralist agendas. A...
The Tears of Sovereignty
The Tears of Sovereignty is a comparative study of the representation of the concept of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modern English and Spanish drama. It argues that baroque drama produces the critical terms through which contemporary philosophical criticism continues to think through the problems of sovereignty today.
Ethos y Polis
Asistimos en la actualidad a una revitalización de la filosofía política, después de décadas de casi abandono. Pero, por lo general, esta recuperación se ha materializado en estudios sobre cuestiones parciales y problemas coyunturales. Apenas existen visones comprehensivas de la realidad política. En esta obra se ensaya una concepción global y sistemática de lo político porque, por difícil y arriesgado que sea tal intento, necesitamos contar con una concepción así para poder juzgar las respuestas dadas a cuestiones particulares. Es preciso plantearse a fondo en qué consiste la política, qué estamos haciendo cuando actuamos políticamente, en qué radica la politicidad de los ...
Territorio, orden concreto, gran espacio, nomos: estudios escogidos
Estamos ante problemas nuevos algunos de los cuales fueron entrevistos por Carl Schmitt. En todos ellos asistimos al fenómeno del desarrollo desmedido de la técnica para facilitar la intervención de terceros (bien “grandes espacios” consolidados, bien Estados que aspiran a operar como “grandes espacios”). “El progreso industrial trae consigo su propia noción de espacio” afirmó el maestro alemán, pues “única y exclusivamente la posesión de un gran espacio industrial permite actualmente la toma del Universo (Weltraumnahme)”. Este nuevo nomos de la Tierra sintetizado en el adagio “cuius industria, eius regio”… significa, en última instancia que ha desaparecido el nomos. El desarrollo de la técnica es tan brutal que las fronteras apenas presentan resistencias. ¿Qué porvenir tiene entonces el Derecho? La pregunta nos interpela y ahí encontramos el “challenge” que exigirá una respuesta, un esfuerzo, que definirá el futuro del Derecho. Carlos Ruiz Miguel Catedrático de Derecho Constitucional Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (España)
