38 | Liberal Democracy in Crisis: Carl Schmitt and the Present
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy by Friedrich Schmidt
Schmidt has become a central point of reference across a broad terrain of theory from the left, including extensive appropriations of his work by georgio gambin and chantal mouf. Some seek to separate what they consider to be salient and illuminating concepts from the more or less faccious tendencies in his thinking. Others decry the dangerous misteake that draws thinkers to his work,. claiming there are no philosophical or political lessons i schmit that we are not much better served by learning elsewhere in machiavelli or lenin or hegel.
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