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Carl Schmitt and Hermann Heller

Dyzenhaus' work can best be described as advocacy scholarship. Both the spirit and content of this book reflect its author's passionate commitment and argumentative approach. It is part scholarly analysis and part political prescription, synthesized in such a way that occasionally it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. Dyzenhaus embraces Gramsci's position that "philosophies of law and politics are . . . elaborations and justification of packages of political commitments" (p. 5). He also adopts the "integrative jurisprudence" of Harold J. Berman that connects "politics, morality and history" by having his "arguments move between exposition of the particular...