Category Archives: Carl Schmitt

What Is The Role Of The State?

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Luke Ford

From the 2019 book, The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt: * Oakeshott concedes that authority is seldom durable, no matter the form of political organization achieved. Anarchy always lurks “just below the surface,” and once authority is questioned or denied, … Continue reading →

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Depoliticizing Power

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Luke Ford

Stephen Turner wrote in 1989: Carl Schmitt’s renovated Hobbesianism, with its insistence on the antithesis between authority and truth contained in the Hobbist slogan auctoritas, non veritas facit legem, (law is decided by authority, not by truth) provides the dialectical … Continue reading →

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NYT: CARL J. FRIEDRICH DIES AT 83; INFLUENTIAL HARVARD PROFESSOR

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Luke Ford

Joseph Berger wrote in 1983 for the New York Times: Having lived in an era which saw the rise of Nazism and the spread of Communism, Dr. Friedrich sometimes took a dour view of the human inclination for freedom. In … Continue reading →

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The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century Second Edition

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2019 book by William E. Scheuerman: * When I penned this volume’s first edition over twenty years ago, the Carl Schmitt “bug” had just hit the Anglophone intellectual world, with many political theorists, jurists, … Continue reading →

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Carl Schmitt’s Erotic State Of Exception

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Luke Ford

From Carl Schmitt: A Biography by Reinhard Mehring: Paul Gottfried wrote in 2015: Reinhard Mehring’s study of the long-lived German political and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is the most exhaustive biography known to me of a deeply fascinating subject. … Continue reading →

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