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Defends political realism as an analytically valuable type of political thought.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Province of Politics The Primacy of Politics The Constituent Nature of the Political The Specificity of Politics The Constitution of Political Power State and Political Revolution State and Political Order The Specificity of the State The End of the Political? The Elimination of the Political The Persistence of the Political Politics - Between Limitation and Intensification The Autonomy of the Political - Elements of a Theory of Political Realism References

About the Author

ECKARD BOLSINGER is a Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, University of Hamburg. He has published various articles and book chapters on Carl Schmitt, Max Weber, and Niklas Luhmann.