We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Carl Schmitt's Early Legal-Theoretical Writings from The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
The thought that the law, in its essence, is power has its last roots in the conviction that all law can come only from the state as the highest earthly power and the strongest reality that a human being may face. Before it – before the encompassing, compact power with its impersonal mechanism and its destructive factuality – any appeal to another instance, any critique, appears to be a futile raisonnement.cviii In view of the [state’s] enormous achievement of having embanked and rendered harmless, at least externally, a sea of unbridled and narrow-minded egoism and of the rawest instincts, and having forced even the influential evildoer at least to [engage in] hypocrisy, any critique might perhaps even be held, by some, to amount to an unjust and frivolous doctrinarianism.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
