Against liberalim. From Gelzer to Meier by Way of Carl Schmitt

Abstract

Aunque Gelzer y Meier estaban unidos por su común hostilidad hacia la democracia liberal, que les condujo a interpretar la Tardía República como una sociedad semejante a sus propias ideas, el primero se apoyaba en un conservadurismo carente de respaldo teórico, mientras que el segundo hizo descansar su interpretación sobre los postulados de Carl Schmitt.Although united by their common hostility to wards liberal democracy, which led both Gelzer and Meier to interpret the Late Republic as a so ciety akin to their ideas, the former was driven by a conservatism without theoretical support, while the latter’s construction was based on the postu lates of Carl Schmitt.