Dictatorship

This book analyses the institution and concept of dictatorship from a legal, historical and theoretical perspective, examining the different types of dictatorship, their relationship to the law, as well as the analytical value of the concept in contemporary world.

In particular, it seeks to codify the main theories and conceptions of ¿dictatorship¿, with the goal of unearthing their contradictions. The book¿s main premise is that the concept of dictatorship and the different types of the dictatorial form have to be assessed and can only be understood in their historical context. On this basis, the elaborations on dictatorship of such diverse thinkers as Carl Schmitt, Donoso Cortes, Karl Marx, Ernst Fraenkel, Franz Neumann, Nicos Poulantzas, and V. I. Lenin, are discussed in their historical context: ¿classical and Caesaristic dictatorship¿ in ancient Rome, ¿dictatorship¿ in revolutionary France of 1789 and counterrevolutionary France of 1848, ¿fascist dictatorship¿ in Nazi Ge