Parliament the Mirror of the Nation

Conti, Gregory

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“…63 Schmitt distinguishes this from imagistic representation (Darstellung) typical of nineteenth-century English debates on parliament and the "mirror of the nation". 64 Instead, Schmitt's conception of representation is a form of "mediation", by which an idea is given concrete and visible mundane form. In Roman Catholicism, the institution of the Church is "representative" in the sense that it gives concrete form to the divine logos.…”

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From the Commissary Dictator to the Katechon: Continuity in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of Intermediate Authority

Collison

2021

Political Theology

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What relation is there between the commissary dictator and the katechon in Schmitt's writings? In this paper I argue that both the dictator of Dictatorship and the katechon of Nomos of the Earth are characterized by a specific conception of authority. This intermediate and limited form of authority, distinct from sovereignty and the regular office, was key Schmitt's attempts, in the 1920s, to save the administrative apparatus of the state from its subsumption to the "machine of government" typical of the theory of the Rechtsstaat.Oriented by a task arising from a concrete problem and supported by a hierarchical conception of dignity, Schmitt claims this limited personalist authority can preserve the 2 creative humanity of the civil service. Reconstructing this form of authority, informed by eschatological fragments from his Tagebücher, I argue that Schmitt's 1920s works are haunted by a kind of shadow of the katechon, which is only given body thirty years later in Nomos of the Earth. Although there shifts in the weighting of elements, parallelling his turn from "decisionism" to "concrete-order thinking", I argue that, at least in its dominant specificities, this form of authority returns in the doctrine of the katechon.

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From the Commissary Dictator to the Katechon: Continuity in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of Intermediate Authority

Collison

2021

Political Theology

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“…4 From this point of view, a parliament could be regarded as representative of a society when the members of the former resemble the components of the latter. 5 This perspective has recently been criticized, since it has often been understood to represent a fact rather than a process, 6 thereby reducing the idea of representation to a static image of what it really involves. Scholars, however, no longer view political representation as a fixed or a static position arising out of an electoral process, but rather as a changeable relation with fluctuating outcomes.…”

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When electors raised their voices: political representation in nineteenth-century Spain from a conceptual perspective

Luján

2022

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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He has previously been a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2019-2020), a visiting researcher at the European University Institute (2014), and an invited researcher at Sorbonne Université (2019). His areas of interest include political representation, political corruption and parliamentary studies during the nineteenth century. He has authored several articles in international peer-reviewed journals. His forthcoming publication is a book titled 'Popular Agency and Politicisation in Nineteenth-century Europe: Beyond the vote', edited by Diego Palacios Cerezales and Oriol Luján in Palgrave Studies in Political History.

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From the Democracy of Opinions to the Democracy of Procedures

Palonen

2023

Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

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Parliament the Mirror of the Nation

Cited by 57 publications

References 169 publications

From the Commissary Dictator to the Katechon: Continuity in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of Intermediate Authority

From the Commissary Dictator to the Katechon: Continuity in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of Intermediate Authority

When electors raised their voices: political representation in nineteenth-century Spain from a conceptual perspective

From the Democracy of Opinions to the Democracy of Procedures

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