EAN: 9783428149322

DER BEHEMOTH - HORST BREDEKAMP KARTONIERT (TB)

Behemoth and Leviathan. Rebellion and governmental order  state of civil war and sovereign
statesperson. Since Thomas Hobbes' publication of »Leviathan«  political theory has not been
able to detach itself from these two biblical monsters whose images capture the modern
political spirit. Horst Bredekamp's history of the »Prefiguration of the Modern State« and its
mutations marks the onset of more recent interpretations (Thomas Hobbes. Der Leviathan. Das
Urbild des modernen Staates und seine Gegenbilder  1651-2001. Berlin 1999  2006). Yet Leviathan
can only be understood against the foil of its doppelgänger  the land animal Behemoth  which is
- following Carl Schmitt - the political symbol of the natural state's revolutionary anarchic
force. Its visual history is no less convoluted. In his recent study  Horst Bredekamp pursues
the two beasts' political history by focusing on the Jobian monster's historical metamorphosis.
Concurrently  it is the first volume of the »Carl Schmitt Lectures« series  publishing the
annual lectures of the Carl Schmitt Society in Berlin.

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