Women in Western Political Philosophy: Kant to Nietzsche

Politics & Social Sciences

Kennedy, Ellen

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

THIS IMPORTANT NEW book analyzes the position of women in the writings of the major political philosophers. The authors argue that the moral status of women both affects and is affected by the conception of their political status. Women have only recently been given the rights of citizens. Hitherto they were thought not to be eligible for citizenship and have been considered members of the political community only through the mediation of their husbands and fathers. These issues are placed in a broad philosophical framework. Moral and political beliefs about women are often found to be consequent upon deeper metaphysical, or even biological, beliefs. This book successfully presents a feminist perspective on questions central to political philosophy and raises issues about the philosophical underpinning of political theory. ---ELLEN KENNEDY is Lecturer in Politics at the University of York and Visiting Lecturer in the University of Freiburg. During 1984-6 she was a Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foun¬dation. SUSAN MENDUS is Lecturer in Philosophy and Morrell Fellow in Toleration at the University of York. She is the co-editor, with John Horton, of Aspects of Toleration (1985). She is the author of Freedom and the Open Society: Henri Bergson's Contribution to Political Philosophy (1986) and the editor and translator of Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parhamentary Democracy (1985).

Mendus, Susan

Constitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimar

Constitutional Failure is a major contribution to studies of the German political philosopher Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), the Weimar Republic, and the relationship of constitutionalism, political economy, and democracy. An internationally renowned scholar of Weimar legal theory, Ellen Kennedy brought Schmitt’s neglected work to the attention of English-speaking readers with her highly regarded translations of his work and studies of its place in twentieth-century political theory. In this eagerly awaited book, she tracks Schmitt’s contribution to the canon of Western political philosophy during its most difficult and dangerous moment—the time of Weimar Germany and the Third Reich—demonstrating the centrality of his thought to understandings of the modern constitutional state and its precarious economic and social foundations. Kennedy reveals how Schmitt’s argument for a strong but neutral state supported the maximization of market freedom at the cost of the political constitution. She argues that the major fault lines of Weimar liberalism—emergency powers, the courts as “defenders of the constitution,” mass mobilization of anti-liberal politics, ethnic-identity politics, a culture of resentment and contested legitimacy—are not exceptions within the liberal-democratic orders of the West, but central to them. Contending that Schmitt’s thought remains vital today because liberal norms are inadequate to the political challenges facing constitutional systems as diverse as those of Eastern Europe and the United States, Kennedy develops a compelling, rigorous argument that unsettles many assumptions about liberalism, democracy, and dictatorship.

History

Europe

Duke University Press Books

Constitutional Failure is a major contribution to studies of the German political philosopher Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), the Weimar Republic, and the relationship of constitutionalism, political economy, and democracy. An internationally renowned scholar of Weimar legal theory, Ellen Kennedy brought Schmitt’s neglected work to the attention of English-speaking readers with her highly regarded translations of his work and studies of its place in twentieth-century political theory. In this eagerly awaited book, she tracks Schmitt’s contribution to the canon of Western political philosophy during its most difficult and dangerous moment—the time of Weimar Germany and the Third Reich—demonstrating the centrality of his thought to understandings of the modern constitutional state and its precarious economic and social foundations. Kennedy reveals how Schmitt’s argument for a strong but neutral state supported the maximization of market freedom at the cost of the political constitution. She argues that the major fault lines of Weimar liberalism—emergency powers, the courts as “defenders of the constitution,” mass mobilization of anti-liberal politics, ethnic-identity politics, a culture of resentment and contested legitimacy—are not exceptions within the liberal-democratic orders of the West, but central to them. Contending that Schmitt’s thought remains vital today because liberal norms are inadequate to the political challenges facing constitutional systems as diverse as those of Eastern Europe and the United States, Kennedy develops a compelling, rigorous argument that unsettles many assumptions about liberalism, democracy, and dictatorship.

This is a paper for anyone wanting to make sense of the new Europe. The Bundesbank is crucial for the processes of both German and European Economic and Monetary Union. It may provide the model for any future European Central Bank or "Euro-Fed". To understand the implications of this for the future of European monetary integration one must also understand the history and structure of the Bundesbank, its ethos and objectives. This book examines these issues and in particular how the Bundesbank has reacted to international pressure.

The Bundesbank CFR: Germany's Central Bank in the International Monetary System (Chatham House Papers)

Business & Money

Economics

Continuum

Poetry. Ellen Kennedy's debut full-length poetry collection. "When I finished reading SOMETIMES MY HEART PUSHES MY RIBS I had to go to lunch with people in a restaurant with enormous beverages and misnamed sandwiches. I kept tapping my hand on the table and I didn't listen to anything anybody said. All I wanted to do was go home to read and write the kind of poetry Ellen Kennedy writes, declarative and nervous and wild and free. This is the sort of thing you want. This is the sort of book you should buy and you should buy it now instead of having lunch with those `friends'"--Daniel Handler. Ellen Kennedy was born in 1989 and lives in Boston.

Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Muumuu House

Carl Schmitt en la República de Weimar: La quiebra de una constitución (Spanish Edition)

Philosophy

Tecnos

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