Between the norm and the exception: the Frankfurt School and the rule of law

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Introduction: recovering the rule of law. Part 1 Carl Schmitt meets Karl Marx: a totalitarian concept of the political the social rule of law. Part 2 Legality and legitimacy: parliamentary legality or plebiscitary dictatorship? the unfinished agenda of rational law. Part 3 Sovereignty and its discontents: the permanent state of emergency beyond state sovereignty. Part 4 Toward the democratic rule of law: a democratic concept of the political between the norm and the exception. Conclusion: the presence of the past.