Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution
- The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I History
- 1 The Tradition of the Material Constitution in Western Marxism
- 2 The Soul of the State
- 3 Laski’s Materialist Analysis of the British Constitution
- 4 Rudolf Smend’s Legacy in German Constitutional Theory
- 5 The Constitution in the Material Sense According to Costantino Mortati
- 6 The Material Constitution of the Dual State
- 7 ‘A Certain Shadowy Totality’
- 8 The Material Constitution in Greek Constitutional Thought
- 9 The Constitution As Social Compromise
- 10 ‘Self-Justifying Law of Constitutional Law’
- Part II Challenges
- Part III Analyses
- Index
6 - The Material Constitution of the Dual State
from Part I - History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2023
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution
- The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I History
- 1 The Tradition of the Material Constitution in Western Marxism
- 2 The Soul of the State
- 3 Laski’s Materialist Analysis of the British Constitution
- 4 Rudolf Smend’s Legacy in German Constitutional Theory
- 5 The Constitution in the Material Sense According to Costantino Mortati
- 6 The Material Constitution of the Dual State
- 7 ‘A Certain Shadowy Totality’
- 8 The Material Constitution in Greek Constitutional Thought
- 9 The Constitution As Social Compromise
- 10 ‘Self-Justifying Law of Constitutional Law’
- Part II Challenges
- Part III Analyses
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses Ernst Fränkel’s analysis of Nazi Germany as a dual state that combined remnants of legal governance with a practice of permanent dictatorship. It is argued that Fränkel’s dual state thesis sheds a critical light on recent appropriations of the notion of material constitution. This claim is developed by way of an analysis and defence of Fränkel’s critique of Carl Schmitt’s concrete order thought.
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- The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution , pp. 100 - 111Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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