Revolutions and Constitutions: Hannah Arendt's Challenge to Carl Schmitt

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 141-161

  Scheuerman, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 85008219640     PISSN: 08418209     EISSN: 20564260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S084182090000028X     Document Type: Article

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2. Martin Jay, Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986) at 237-56.
3. But I believe that Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves effectively answers arguments of this sort in his fine The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt (New York: Routledge, 1994) at 85- 2.
4. Hannah Arendt, "Waldemar Gurian: 1903-1954" in Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1983) 251.
5. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (New York: Penguin, 1963) at 18.
6. Stephen Elkin & Karol Soltan, eds., A New Constitutionalism: Designing Political Institutions for a Good Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
7. William E. Scheuerman, "Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberal Constitutionalism" (1996) 58 Rev. of Politics 299.
8. Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985) at 66.
9. Ulrich PreuB, "Constitutional Powermaking for the New Polity: Some Deliberations on the Relations Between the Constituent Power and the Constitution" (1993) 14 Cardozo L. Rev. 639 at 650.
10. Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, trans. George Schwab (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1976) at 27.
11. Hans Kelsen, Vom Wesen und Wert der Demokratie (Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1929).
12. see also Schmitt, Die Diktatur (Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1922) at 140-152.
13. Bonnie Honig, "Declarations of Independence: Arendt and Derrida on the Problem of Founding a Republic" (1991) 85 Am. Pol. Science Rev. 97.
14. For a response, see Seyla Benhabib, "Democracy and Difference: Reflections on the Metapolitics of Lyotard & Derrida" (1994) 2 J. of Pol. Phil. 1.
15. Carl Schmitt, Legalität mid Legitimität (Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1932) at 93.
16. Notwithstanding his oftentimes caricatured interpretations of French revolutionary political thought, this is the important insight of Francois Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
17. Ingeborg Maus, "'Volk' und 'Nation' im Denken der Aufklarung" (1994) 39 Blatter fur deutsche und internationale Politik 602.
18. Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992) at 45-46.
19. Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, What is the Third Estate?, trans. M. Blondel (New York: Pall Mall, 1963) at 58-59.
20. Murray Forsyth, Reason and Revolution: The Political Thought of the Abbe Sieyes (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1987) at 71.
21. Joan McDonald, Rousseau and the French Revolution (London: University of London Press, 1965)
22. Iring Fetscher, Rousseaus Politische Philosophie (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1973).
23. In a similar vein, see Stefan Breuer, "Nationalstaat und pouvoir constituant bei Sieyes und Carl Schmitt" (1984) 70
24. Andrew Arato, "Dilemmas Resulting from the Power to Create Constitutions in Eastern Europe" (1993) 14 Cardozo L. Rev. 661
25. Bruce Ackerman, The Future of the Liberal Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).
26. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979) at 230-31.
27. Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves, trans. Leon S. Roudiez (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991) at 151.
28. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract in Frederick Watkins, ed., Political Writings, trans. Frederick Watkins (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986) 32.
29. Ingeborg Maus, Zur Aufklärung der Demokratietheorie (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1992).
30. For a provocative recent attempt to defend traditional conceptions of sovereignty, see Blandine Kriegel, The State and the Rule of Law, trans. Marc A. LePain & Jeffrey C. Cohen (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).
31. Franz Neumann, The Democratic and Authoritarian State (New York: Free Press, 1964) at 136.
32. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958) at 175-247.
33. For a similar criticism see Sheldon Wolin, "Hannah Arendt: Democracy and the Political" (1983) 60 Salmagundi 3.
34. Clinton Rossiter, ed., The Federalist Papers (New York: NAL Penguin, 1961) at 252-53.
35. Akhil Reed Amar, "Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Amendment" in Sanford Levinson, ed., Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) at 89-116.
36. Bruce A. Ackerman, "Neo-Federalism?" in Jon Elster & Rune Slagstad, eds., Constitutionalism and Democracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988) 153 at 163.
37. George Kateb, Hannah Arendt: Politics, Conscience, Evil (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1983) at 115-48.
38. Herbert J. Storing, ed., The Anti-Federalist (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985) at 183.
39. Hannah Arendt, "What is Authority" in Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought, enl. (New York: Penguin, 1961) at 93.
40. Bruce Ackerman, We the People, vol. I (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991).
41. Daniel Lazare, The Frozen Republic (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996).