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Author:   Johan Tralau (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9780415661218

ISBN 10:   0415661218
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   06 September 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and Three Conceptions of Politics Johan Tralau 2. Schmitt’s Behemoth Toma Mastnak 3. Hobbes and Schmitt on the Name and Nature of Leviathan Revisited Patricia Springborg 4. Re-Imagining Leviathan: Schmitt and Oakeshott on Hobbes and the Problem of Political Order Jan-Werner Müller 5. Hobbes’s Paradox Redux Roberto Farneti 6. The Liberal Slip of Thomas Hobbes’s Authoritarian Pen Gabriella Slomp 7. Does Hobbes have a Concept of the Enemy? Stephen Holmes 8. From Roman Catholicism to Mechanized Oppression: On Political-Theological Disjunctures in Schmitt’s Weimar Thought John P. McCormick 9. Hobbes, Schmitt, and the Paradox of Religious Liberality Karsten Fischer 10. The Significance of Hobbes’s Conception of Power John Dunn 11. Order, the Ocean, and Satan: Schmitt’s Hobbes, National Socialism, and the Enigmatic Ambiguity of Friend and Foe Johan Tralau

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Johan Tralau teaches politics at Uppsala universitet. He has been a visiting scholar in Tokyo, Berlin, at the New School of Social Research, in Rome, and in Hanover. In 2007–2008, he hosted his own TV show, Kanon-TV, on the Swedish channel Axess TV. He has published extensively in English, German and Swedish, including his books, Människoskymning. Främlingskap, frihet, och Hegels problem hos Karl Marx och Ernst Jünger (2002, German trans. 2005), and Draksådd. Den grekiska tragedin som politiskt tänkande (2010); his work has been (or will shortly be) published in journals such as Political Theory; Philosophisches Jahrbuch; Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies; Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft; European Journal of Political Theory, and History of Political Thought.

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