Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary
Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt
ANDREAS KALYVAS
The New School for Social Research
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Although the modern age is often described as the age of democratic revolutions, the subject of popular foundings has not captured the imagination of modern political thought. Early democratic theory, marked by the historical experience of the ancient Greek polis and enraptured by the Roman republican legacy, at least since the time of Niccolo Machiavelli and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, has elided the theme of collective foundings and democratic higher lawmaking. By confining the question of new beginnings to the instituting acts of mythical lawgivers and heroic founders, usually located outside the demos, democratic theory did not systematically address political and legal foundings on its own terms. DOWNLOAD
