In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism’s basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared. George Schwab’s introduction to his translation of the 1932 German edition highlights Schmitt’s intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state. In addition to analysis by Leo Strauss and a foreword by Tracy B. Strong placing Schmitt’s work into contemporary context, this expanded edition also includes a translation of Schmitt’s 1929 lecture “The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations,” which the author himself added to the 1932 edition of the book. An essential update on a modern classic, The Concept of the Political, Expanded Edition belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in political theory or philosophy.

在这本他最具影响力的作品中，法律理论家和政治哲学家卡尔-施密特认为，自由主义以个人权利为基础，不能为国家牺牲自己提供合理的理由，这种批判在今天和它首次出现时一样有说服力。乔治-施瓦布为他翻译的1932年德文版所作的介绍，强调了施密特在德国历史上导致希特勒一党制的动荡时期的思想历程。除了利奥-施特劳斯的分析和特雷西-B-斯特朗的前言将施密特的作品纳入当代背景之外，这个扩展版还包括施密特1929年的演讲 "中立化和非政治化的时代 "的翻译，作者本人将其加入了该书的1932年版本。作为一部现代经典著作的重要更新，《政治的概念》增订版属于任何对政治理论或哲学感兴趣的人的书架上。