Carl Schmitt on the Transformations of the People in Modernity

Abstract This article argues that through the reinterpretation of old theory pouvoir constituant proposed by Sieyès, Carl Schmitt shows impossibility political modernity being anything other than authoritarian populism, whether means democratic or autocratic procedures. It is not Schmitt's but modern politics, born out French Revolution, cannot be else. analyses idea people in Dictatorship (1921), The Crises Parliamentary Democracy (1923), Volksentscheid und Volksbegehren (1927), Constitutional Theory (1928), and State, Movement, People (1933) provide a fine analysis populist character modernity. Something those alive twenty-first century have been able to experience was theorized an oracular way. Because his keen insight he still worth reading.