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Law and Legitimacy in the Work of Jürgen Habermas and Carl Schmitt

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Die postnationale Konstellation, HabermasJürgen (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1998); forthcoming as The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays, Jürgen Habermas, ed. Max Pensky (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), 216 pp., $55 cloth.

The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory, HabermasJürgen, ed. Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998), 334 pp., $45 cloth, $17.95 paper.

The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, BalakrishnanGopal (New York: Verso, 2000), 320 pp., $40 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2012

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2001

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1 Kant, Immanuel, “Perpetual Peace,” Philosophical Writings, ed. Behler, Ernst, trans. Beck, Lewis White (New York: Continuum, 1986), p. 286Google Scholar. Translation amended.

2 Habermas, , Die postnationale Konstellation, p. 95Google Scholar. My translation.

3 Schmitt, Carl, Verfassungslehre (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1928Google Scholar).

4 Balakrishnan, , The Enemy, p. 76Google Scholar.

5 See Habermas, Jürgen, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. Burger, Thomas and Lawrence, Frederick (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991)Google Scholar.

6 Habermas, , Inclusion of the Other, p. 4Google Scholar.

7 See Habermas, Jürgen, The Theory of Communicative Action, 2 vols., trans. McCarthy, Thomas (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984, 1987)Google Scholar.

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10 Balakrishnan, , The Enemy, p. 264Google Scholar.

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13 Ibid., p. 132Google Scholar.