Works by Andreas Kalyvas
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- Democracy and the politics of the extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt.Andreas Kalyvas -2008 - New York: Cambridge University Press.Although the modern age is often described as the age of democratic revolutions, the subject of popular foundings has not captured the imagination of contemporary political thought. Most of the time, democratic theory and political science treat as the object of their inquiry normal politics, institutionalized power, and consolidated democracies. The aim of Andreas Kalyvas' study is to show why it is important for democratic theory to rethink the question of its beginnings. Is there a founding unique to democracies? Can (...) a democracy be democratically established? What are the implications of expanding democratic politics in light of the question of whether and how to address democracy's beginnings? Kalyvas addresses these questions and scrutinizes the possibility of democratic beginnings in terms of the category of the extraordinary, as he reconstructs it from the writings of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt and their views on the creation of new political, symbolic, and constitutional orders. (shrink)
- Popular Sovereignty, Democracy, and the Constituent Power.Andreas Kalyvas -2005 -Constellations 12 (2):223-244.
- Democracy and the poor: Prolegomena to a radical theory of democracy.Andreas Kalyvas -2019 -Constellations 26 (4):538-553.
- Whose crisis? Which democracy? Notes on the current political conjuncture.Andreas Kalyvas -2019 -Constellations 26 (3):384-390.Constellations, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 384-390, September 2019.
- From the Act to the Decision.Andreas Kalyvas -2004 -Political Theory 32 (3):320-346.There is much disagreement among many commentators of Hannah Arendt's work about whether her contributions to politics and philosophy contain a clandestine version of decisionism or, by contrast, represent an explicit attempt to break away from the elements of voluntarism, arbitrariness, and irrationality, which are considered to be inherent to any theory of the decision. Despite the many disagreements that set apart these two interpretations of Arendt, however, there is a common presupposition that both share. They are in agreement concerning (...) the decision: it is a threat and a vice, intrinsically dangerous and potentially totalitarian in nature, which ought to be expelled from any theory of politics with a normative content. As a result, the terms of the debate pertain solely to whether Arendt was a (crypto-) decisionist and not to the nature and evaluation of the decision as such. This paper argues, contrary to Arendt's critics, that although elements of a theory of the decision can be found scattered throughout many of her writings, she was nonetheless unswerving in her opposition to decisionism. But unlike her defenders, it also argues that had Arendt built on these elements to elaborate a systematic theory of the decision, she would have avoided many of the flaws and inconsistencies that plague her concept of politics. (shrink)
- Who's afraid of Carl Schmitt?Andreas Kalyvas -1999 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 25 (5):87-125.McCormick, John, Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (reviewed by Andreas Kalyvas); Caldwell, Peter, Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law: The Theory and Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism (reviewed by Andreas Kalyvas); Dyzenhaus, David, Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, Hermann Heller (reviewed by Andreas Kalyvas); Cristi, Renato, Carl Schmitt and Liberal Authoritarianism: Strong State, Free Economy (reviewed by Andreas Kalyvas).
- Carl Schmitt's postcolonial imagination.Andreas Kalyvas -2018 -Constellations 25 (1):35-53.
- The Politics of Autonomy and the Challenge of Deliberation: Castoriadis Contra Habermas.Andreas Kalyvas -2001 -Thesis Eleven 64 (1):1-19.Contemporary Anglo-American political thought is witnessing a revival of theories of deliberative democracy. The principle of public argumentation, according to which the legitimation of a general norm is predicated upon a rational and open dialog among all those affected by this norm, constitutes their common underlying assumption. This assumption is itself grounded in the metatheoretical claim that arguing is the defining activity of a demos of free and equal members. Habermas' well-known formulation of communicative or discursive democracy represents one of (...) the earliest, most discussed, and indeed most emblematic versions of the existing models of deliberative democracy. It is here, I believe, that Castoriadis' political theory can prove exceptionally important as it provides a starting point and a solid ground for articulating one of the most incisive and convincing critiques of the limits and flaws of communicative democracy. Although Castoriadis himself never directly discussed deliberative democracy as such, we can try to approximate from various parts of his work what he might have thought about, especially when it comes to Habermas' model. (shrink)
- Norm and Critique in Castoriadis's Theory of Autonomy.Andreas Kalyvas -1998 -Constellations 5 (2):161-182.
- The basic Norm and democracy in Hans kelsen’s legal and political theory.Andreas Kalyvas -2006 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 32 (5):573-599.Hans Kelsen refused to develop a democratic theory of the basic norm. Given that he expounded a strong distinction between law and politics as two separate scientific disciplines he consistently argued against any attempt to politicize legal science and corrupt its object of cognition. As a result, there has been very little discussion of the basic norm in relation to his democratic theory. This article attempts to fill this gap by tracing the relationship between the basic norm and democracy in (...) Kelsen’s legal and political writings. More precisely, it maps Kelsen’s seminal distinction between autonomy and heteronomy onto his reflections on constitutional making and probes the anti-democratic implications of his theory of the basic norm as they undermine the normative foundations of democratic theory. The article concludes by addressing the question of whether it is possible to articulate a theory of the democratic ground norm, of democratic foundings with a normative content, by proposing the idea of an immanent, performative basic norm as the source of validity of a democratic constitutional order Key Words: Hannah Arendt • basic norm • constitu ere • constitutional making • democracy • immanent norm • Hans Kelsen. (shrink)
- Adam Ferguson Returns.Andreas Kalyvas &Ira Katznelson -1998 -Political Theory 26 (2):173-197.
- The Tyranny of Dictatorship.Andreas Kalyvas -2007 -Political Theory 35 (4):412-442.The article examines the inaugural encounter of the Greek theory of tyranny and the Roman institution of dictatorship. Although the twentieth century is credited for fusing the tyrant and the dictator into one figure/concept, I trace the origins of this conceptual synthesis in a much earlier historical period, that of the later Roman Republic and the early Principate, and in the writings of two Greek historians of Rome, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Appian of Alexandria. In their histories, the traditional interest (...) in the relationship between the king and the tyrant is displaced by a new curiosity about the tyrant and the dictator. The two historians placed the two figures alongside one another and found them to be almost identical, blurring any previous empirical, analytical, or normative distinctions. In their Greco-Roman synthesis dictatorship is re-described as `temporary tyranny by consent' and the tyrant as a `permanent dictator.' Dictatorship, a venerated republican magistracy, the ultimate guardian of the Roman constitution, is for the first time radically reinterpreted and explicitly questioned. It meets its first critics. (shrink)
- The sovereign Weaver: Beyond the camp.Andreas Kalyvas -2005 - In Andrew Norris,Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer. Durham: Duke University Press.
- "We are Modern Men": Benjamin Constant and the Discovery of an Immanent Liberalism.Andreas Kalyvas &Ira Katznelson -1999 -Constellations 6 (4):513-539.
- Critical Theory at the Crossroads: Comments on Axel Honneth's Theory of Recognition.Andreas Kalyvas -1999 -European Journal of Social Theory 2 (1):99-108.No categories
- Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary.Andreas Kalyvas -2017 -Sociology of Power 29 (2):221-238.No categories
- Fighting the Wrong Enemy?David Ames Curtis &Andreas Kalyvas -1998 -Political Theory 26 (6):818-824.
- An anomaly? Some reflections on the greek december 2008.Andreas Kalyvas -2010 -Constellations 17 (2):351-365.
- Back to Adorno?Andreas Kalyvas -2004 -Political Theory 32 (2):247-256.
- Carl Schmitt and Modern Law.Andreas Kalyvas -1999 -Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1999 (116):153-164.Apart from a few exceptions,1 studies of Carl Schmitt in English have not dealt with the legal and constitutional aspects of his work. William Scheuerman's book begins to fill this gap. His work is an important corrective to previous interpretations which, by disproportionally emphasizing the cultural and theological aspects of Schmitt's work, have neglected its central legal character, thus reducing one of the most influential jurists of the 20th century either to a right-wing cultural critic or to a dissatisfied crypto-theologian.2 (...) Among other consequences, this neglect has contributed to disregarding themes that are pivotal to Schmitt's thinking.3 Scheuerman focuses on…. (shrink)
- Feet of Clay? Reflections on Hardt's and Negri's Empire.Andreas Kalyvas -2003 -Constellations 10 (2):264-279.
- (1 other version)Introduction : Carl Schmitt's prison writings.Andreas Kalyvas &Federico Finchelstein -2017 - In Carl Schmitt,Ex captivitate salus: experiences, 1945-47. Malden, MA, USA: Polity Press.Export citation
Bookmark - The democratic agonism of the ancients compared to that of the (post)moderns.Andreas Kalyvas -2008 - In Andrew Schaap,Law and Agonistic Politics. Ashgate Pub. Company.
- The Origins of Autonomy.Andreas Kalyvas -1998 -Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1998 (113):139-149.Marcel Gauchet's book is an ambitious study of the rise and demise of religion.1 Written in the tradition of the “grand narratives,” he seeks to reconstruct the multiple linkages between the transformation of religion and the secularization of Western civilization.2 Relying on Max Weber and Cornelius Castoriadis, Gauchet seeks to explain the transition from a religious universe to a preeminently profane world that has broken irrecoverably with its religious past. How, Gauchet asks, did the transition take place? How did the (...) modern world and especially politics succeed in emancipating themselves from God? How was the break with the invisible Other…. (shrink)
- Democracy's Lifecycle?: Marcel Gauchet on Religion and Politics. [REVIEW]Andreas Kalyvas -1999 -European Journal of Social Theory 2 (4):485-496.No categories
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