Abstract

MAGALHAES, Pedro T.. The double illusion. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2016, n.52, pp.9-25. ISSN 1645-9199.

This paper seeks to contribute to the debates on the crisis of contemporary democracy by evoking two modern classics - Max Weber and Carl Schmitt - and a specific historical context - Weimar's late modernity. By sketching the troubled path from Max Weber's disillusioned liberalism to Carl Schmitt's totalitarian hopes, it suggests that modern democracy inhabits the critical and uncertain space between a double illusion.

Keywords : Democracy; liberalism; totalitarianism; modernity.

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