Carl Schmitt and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-33

  Mouffe, Chantal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0347177266     PISSN: 08418209     EISSN: 20564260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0841820900000217     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996 (paperback)) at lxi.
2. However, it does not seem to be the case since Bill Scheuerman in his book Between the Norm and the Exception (Cambridge, MA: MTT Press, 1994)
3. David Held, Democracy and the Global Order (Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 1995).
4. Richard Falk, On Human Governance (Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 1995) ch. 7.
5. Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985) at 9.
6. I have made a similar argument concerning the tension that exists between the articulation of the liberal logic of difference and the democratic logic on equivalence in my discussion of Schmitt in The Return of the Political (London: Verso, 1993) chs. 7 and 8.
7. Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1976) at 70.
8. "Democracy and Pluralism: A Critique of the Rationalist Approach" (1995) 16:5 Cardozo L. Rev. 1533.
9. Seyla Benhabib, "Deliberative Rationality and Models of Democratic Legitimacy" (1994) 1 Constellations 30.
10. Carl Schmitt, "Staatsethik und pluralistischer Staat" (1930) 35 Kantstudien 1 at 31.
11. Jean-Francois Kervegan, Hegel, Carl Schmitt: Le Politique entre Speculation et Positivite (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1992) at 259.