The democratic and the authoritarian state; essays in political and legal theory.

Date:

[1957]

Author:

Neumann, Franz L., 1900-1954.

Collecting Area:

Rare Books

Call Number:

JA 38 N4 LOCAL

Publisher:

Free Press

Abstract:

The essays in this volume range over many aspects of the tension between freedom and power that characterizes advanced industrial civilization. Some of these aspects are the changing role of law in modern society, natural law, justifiable civil disobedience and its limits, the concept of political freedom and its relation to intellectuals, and the theory of dictatorship.

Physical Description:

x, 303 pages 22 cm

Notes:

Special Collections' copy is part of the Otto Kirchheimer collection. LOCAL

Subjects:

Political science, Political science, Idées politiques, Political science, Vrijheid. gtt, and Politieke macht. gtt