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Law, liberty and state: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the rule of law

Dyzenhaus, David and Poole, Thomas, eds. (2015) Law, liberty and state: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the rule of law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107093386

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Abstract

Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt are associated with a conservative reaction to the 'progressive' forces of the twentieth century. Each was an acute analyst of the juristic form of the modern state and the relationship of that form to the idea of liberty under a system of public, general law. Hayek had the highest regard for Schmitt's understanding of the rule of law state despite Schmitt's hostility to it, and he owed the distinction he drew in his own work between a purpose-governed form of state and a law-governed form to Oakeshott. However, the three have until now rarely been considered together, something which will be ever more apparent as political theorists, lawyers and theorists of international relations turn to the foundational texts of twentieth-century thought at a time when debate about liberal democratic theory might appear to have run out of steam.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://www.cambridge.org/
Additional Information: © 2015 Cambridge University Press
Divisions: Law
Subjects: K Law > K Law (General)
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2015 14:56
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2024 14:44
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/61058

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