Kennedy, Ellen: Constitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimar.(Book Review)

History: Review of New Books, March, 2005 by Paddock, Troy

Kennedy, Ellen Constitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimar Durham: Duke University Press 288 pp., $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper ISBN 0-8223-3230-2 cloth ISBN 0-8133-1233-X paper Publication Date: July 2004

The political theorist Carl Schmitt is an intellectual lightning rod. Ellen Kennedy is the author of Constitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimar, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the foremost experts on Carl Schmitt. The author of numerous books including the first English translation of Schmitt's The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, Kennedy offers a complex analysis of the evolution of Schmitt's thought from the 1910s to the collapse of the Nazi regime.

In this rich and complex work, Kennedy...

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