Schmitt on Sovereignty and the State of Exception

This Palgrave Pivot offers a balanced and impartial commentary on one of the most important of the early writings by the German legal scholar Carl Schmitt. The book is known mostly by its title Politische Theologie but Schmitt’s subtitle indicated that his book was on more than political theology, but was focused on conceptions of sovereignty, authority, and the ‘state of exception’. The author shows how the Politische Theologie published in 1922 clearly formulated Schmitt’s thinking regarding d