Silencing the laws to save the fatherland: Rousseau’s theory of dictatorship between Bodin and Schmitt
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2019.1661265
Abstract: ABSTRACT Jean-Jacques Rousseau devoted an important chapter of his Social Contract to the dictatorship. Carl Schmitt interpreted Rousseau’s chapter as marking the transition from ‘commissarial’ to ‘sovereign dictatorship’. This article argues that Schmitt’s interpretation is… read more here.
Keywords: dictatorship; silencing laws; rousseau; bodin ... See more keywords