Carlos Pérez Crespo
Affiliated Scholar
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Email: [email protected]
Website: Personal / faculty page
Biography
Carlos Pérez Crespo is an Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Chile. He was previously an adjunct lecturer of political theory at the University of Hamburg and a visiting doctoral student at the University of Cambridge. He won the 2023 Charles Schmitt Prize of the International Association for Intellectual History. His work examines the political and constitutional theories of France and Germany and their reception in Spain and Latin America. He is currently researching the international reception of political theorists and ideologues of autocracies, in particular the work of the German jurist Carl Schmitt.
Selected publications
- Article · 2026 Carl Schmitt’s study notes on the French Revolution (1789–1791): monarchy, constituent power, and the origins of representation Intellectual History Review
- Chapter · 2026 Constituent Dictatorship: A Latin American Tradition The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power Argues that Bolívar's dictatorship in Peru (1825–1826) began a Latin American tradition of constituent dictatorship.
- Article · 2025 When Weimar came to the Spanish-American world: The early reception of German constitutional ideas in Peru (1919-1939) Historia Constitucional How the Weimar Constitution was first received in the Spanish-speaking world, through debates about Peru.
- Article · 2024 Sieyès’s idea of constituent power: a moderate and illiberal idea of sovereignty in the French revolution History of European Ideas
- Article · 2024 Anti-liberalism, Civil War and dictatorship: Carl Schmitt and his intellectual influence on the Francoist ideologists (1939–1942) Intellectual History Review
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