Category Archives: Carl Schmitt

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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A Jewish Analysis Of Western Politics

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Luke Ford

Charles Lesch is a professor of political science at Vanderbilt. He has his PhD from Harvard. He recently published: Theopolitics Contra Political Theology: Martin Buber’s Biblical Critique of Carl Schmitt. He’s also published, Democratic Solidarity in a Secular Age? Habermas … Continue reading →

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The Concept Of The Political

Posted on August 18, 2019 by Luke Ford
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Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

Posted on August 18, 2019 by Luke Ford
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