Roman Catholicism and Political Form

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The relationship between economic and political thinking has reached a crisis at the end of the 20th century. Already at the beginning of this century, in Roman Catholicism and Political Form, Carl Schmitt juxtaposed a juridical interpretation of religion oriented to the political sphere to Max Weber's sociological interpretation oriented to the economic sphere in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. According to G. L. Ulmen, translator of Roman Catholicism and Political Form

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This work is important because it shows that beneath Schmitt's surface realism lie some very firm notions about the ideal political order and how nearly the Catholic Church once embodied it.-The New York Review of Books
"This work is important because it shows that beneath Schmitt's surface realism lie some very firm notions about the ideal political order and how nearly the Catholic Church once embodied it."-The New York Review of Books

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Carl Schmitt G. L. ULMEN is a senior editor for Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought. Dr. Ulmen has published widely on juridical and political issues in both Europe and the United States. His latest book is Politischer Mehrwert: Eine Studie ber Max Weber und Carl Schmitt (1991).