(Hardback, 2nd edition)

The Challenge of the Exception is the key that unlocked the ideas of Carl Schmitt, a leading political theorist and jurist who influenced the thoughts of, among others, Hannah Arendt, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Otto Kirchheimer, Hans Morgenthau, Franz Neumann, and Leo Strauss.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

A translation of Carl Schmitt's work, which, under the guise of studying the significance of the symbol of the leviathan in Hobbes, actually dealt with the demise of the Third Reich. Schmitt showed that its descent into totalitarianism proves that the Hobbesian protection-obedience axis was tilted.