•  436
    The Problem of Political Sovereignty: Hegel and Schmitt (3rd ed.)
    Cosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 17 (3): 145-170. 2021.
    Both G.F.W. Hegel and Carl Schmitt took seriously the problem of political sovereignty entailed by liberal political theories. In Dictatorship (1919) and Political Theology (1922), Schmitt rejects liberal political theories that argue for the immediate unity of democracy and legality i.e., popular sovereignty, because he thinks they cannot secure political sovereignty. In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel denounces popular sovereignty for similar reasons. Yet given Schmitt’s negative assessment of …Read more