Dictatorship: From the Origin of the Modern Concept of Sovereignty to Proletarian Class Struggle

Translator’s Introduction

Foreword to the fourth edition (1978)

Foreword to the third edition (1964)

Foreword to the second edition (1928)

Preliminary remarks to the first edition (1921)

I Commissary Dictatorship and the theory of the state

II The praxis of royal commissars up to the 18th century

III The transition to sovereign dictatorship in the theory of the state of the 18th century

IV The concept of sovereign dictatorship

V The praxis of the people’s commissars during the French Revolution

VI Dictatorship in the contemporary constitution (the state of besiegement)

Appendix: The Dictatorship of the Reichspräsident according to Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution pp. 211-57

I Common interpretation of Article 48, Paragraph 2 today

II The regulation of Article 48, Paragraph 2 as a provisorium

III General limitation of competence based on Article 48, Paragraph 2

IV The law of implementation [Ausfüngsgesetz] regarding Article 48 RV

INDEX OF NAMES

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

GLOSSARY

Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) was a legal theorist, political philosopher, and the author of Legality and Legitimacy, On the Three Types of Juristic Thought, Political Romanticism, Nomos of the Earth, Roman Catholicism and Political Form, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, and The Concept of the Political, the last available from the University of Chicago Press.