Hans Kelsen's Political Realism

Robert Schuett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8169-4 (ISBN)

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This book is the first work to show this iconic legal philosopher’s significance as a progressive political realist. In a lively account of Kelsen’s life and political thinking, Robert Schuett introduces him as a political realist and brings his thought on human nature, the state and war into productive tension with today’s Schmittians and conventional views of foreign policy realism.
At a precarious moment in world history, where Western liberal principles are challenged by visions of illiberal democracy at home and abroad, this new reading of the Pure theory of law, state and international legal order is a timely defense of the ideals of an open society through a realistic style of politics.

Robert Schuett is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. His research and teaching interests are International Relations theory and foreign-policy realism. Recent publications include The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and The Concept of the State in International Relations (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He lives and works in Vienna.

Introduction

1. Kelsen's Enemies
The FBI
Realists vs. Kelsen
Imaginary Foe
There Is No Utopia
A Most Misunderstood Man
2. Kelsen's Milieu
The k.u.k. War Ministry
Dante and Philosophy
Freud and Economics
Generals and Governments
A Most Realistic Man
3. Kelsen's Freudian Moment
Speaking Truth to Power
Law and State
Coercion and Politics
Roots of Authority
A Most Realistic State
4. Kelsen's Foreign-policy Realism
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
Anarchy and War
Democracy and Peace
Nationalism and the World State
A Most Realistic World Politics
5. Kelsen's Style of Political Thinking
Kelsen and Popper
Win Some, Lose Some
The National Interest
…and other Myths
Concluding Remarks on a Man and Method
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2022
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-4744-8169-8 / 1474481698
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-8169-4 / 9781474481694
Zustand	Neuware